Changing Print Layer Patterns to Increase Strength Dy default, the slicing software used for 3D printers has the printer first create the walls around the edges of a print, then goes back to deposit the infill pattern. https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/changing-print-layer-patterns-to-increase-strength/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/changing-print-layer-patterns-to-increase-strength/

Motorized Faders Make An Awesome Volume Mixer For Your PC These days, Windows has a moderately robust method for managing the volume across several applications. The only problem is that the controls for this are usually buried away. [CHWTT] found https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/motorized-faders-make-an-awesome-volume-mixer-for-your-pc/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/motorized-faders-make-an-awesome-volume-mixer-for-your-pc/

Cheap Smart Ring Becomes MIDI Controller The Colmi R02 is one of the cheapest smart rings on the market. It costs about $20, and is remarkably easy to hack. [Floyd Steinberg] took advantage of this to https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/cheap-smart-ring-becomes-midi-controller/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/cheap-smart-ring-becomes-midi-controller/

Secret Ingredients We were talking on the podcast about rope. But not just any rope – especially non-stretchy rope for using in a mechanical context. The hack in question was a bicycle https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/secret-ingredients/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/secret-ingredients/

Playing YouTube From The Command Line Generally, one opens a web browser or an app to use YouTube. However, if you’re looking to just listen to the audio, you can actually do that right from the https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/playing-youtube-from-the-command-line/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/playing-youtube-from-the-command-line/

Surviving the RAM Price Squeeze With Linux In-Kernel Memory Compression You’ve probably heard — we’re currently experiencing very high RAM prices due mostly to increased demand from AI data centers. If you’ve been priced out of new RAM you are https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/surviving-the-ram-price-squeeze-with-linux-in-kernel-memory-compression/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/surviving-the-ram-price-squeeze-with-linux-in-kernel-memory-compression/

Crouching Typewriter, Hidden PC Go back a couple of generations, and rather than a laptop or a luggable, the office accessory of choice was a portable typewriter. As the 20th century wore on, the https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/crouching-typewriter-hidden-pc/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/crouching-typewriter-hidden-pc/

Writing an Optimizing Tensor Compiler from Scratch Not everyone will write their own optimizing compiler from scratch, but those who do sometimes roll into it during the course of ever-growing project scope creep. People like [Michael Moroz], https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/writing-an-optimizing-tensor-compiler-from-scratch/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/writing-an-optimizing-tensor-compiler-from-scratch/

Need a Curved Plastic Mesh? Print Flat, Curve Later Need a plastic mesh in a custom pattern? 3D print it, no problem. But what if one needs a curved plastic mesh? That’s considerably harder to 3D print, but [Uncle Jessy]’s https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/need-a-curved-plastic-mesh-print-flat-curve-later/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/need-a-curved-plastic-mesh-print-flat-curve-later/

Ordering Pizza On Your Sega Dreamcast Is Very Clunky Indeed If you’re ordering pizza these days, you’re probably using a smartphone app or perhaps still making a regular old phone call. If you’re creative and a little bit tricky, though, https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/ordering-pizza-on-your-sega-dreamcast-is-very-clunky-indeed/ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/ordering-pizza-on-your-sega-dreamcast-is-very-clunky-indeed/