04 March 2026
Kart-e-Char, Kabul, Afghanistan

Maya Posch

Articles by Maya Posch

Converting a Nebra Cryptocurrency Miner To a Meshcore Repeater

CryptoJanuary 23, 2026

After the swivel by Helium Inc. towards simply running distributed WiFi hotspots after for years pushing LoRaWAN nodes, many of the associated hardware became effectively obsolete. This led to quite …...

Modifying A QingPing Air Quality Monitor For Local MQTT Access - Hackaday

TechnologyJanuary 5, 2026

The QingPing Air Quality Monitor 2 is an Android-based device that not only features a touch screen with the current air quality statistics of the room, but also includes an MQTT interface that norma…...

Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11 - Hackaday

TechnologyJanuary 4, 2026

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this feeling, [Trigr…...

It’s Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux - Hackaday

TechnologyJanuary 1, 2026

Although flying well under the radar of the average Linux user, D-Bus has been an integral part of Linux distributions for nearly two decades and counting. Rather than using faster point-to-point int…...

The Rise Of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators - Hackaday

TechnologyDecember 31, 2025

Scientific calculators are an amazing invention that take pocket calculators from being merely basic arithmetic machines to being pocket computers that can handle everything from statistics to algebr…...

NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux - Hackaday

TechnologyDecember 27, 2025

It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way that this is be…...

Printing With Metal On The Ender 3 Using Only A Friction Wheel - Hackaday

TechnologyDecember 26, 2025

Printing metal as easily as it is to printed with thermoplastics has been a dream for a very long time, with options for hobbyists being very scarce. This is something which [Rotoforge] seeks to chan…...

Abusing X86 SIMD Instructions To Optimize PlayStation 3 Emulation - Hackaday

TechnologyDecember 26, 2025

Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target opcodes that may or may not have been imagined for that particular use. For emu…...

Be Wary Of Flash-less ESP32-C3 Super Mini Boards - Hackaday

TechnologyDecember 25, 2025

Everyone loves tiny microcontroller boards, and the ESP32-C3 Super Mini boards are no exception. Unfortunately if you just casually stroll over to your nearest online purveyor of such goods to purcha…...

Libxml2 Narrowly Avoids Becoming Unmaintained - Hackaday

TechnologyDecember 24, 2025

In an excellent example of one of the most overused XKCD images, the libxml2 library has for a little while lost its only maintainer, with [Nick Wellnhofer] making good on his plan to step down by th…...