Although 3D printing it a great tool for making all sorts of things, the nature of the plastics used in most desktop FDM ...

Have you ever looked out across the rooftops of a city and idly gazed at the infrastructure that remains unseen from the ...

Once upon a time, not every computer lived in a vertical “tower” case. Many decades back a horizontal arrangement was a ...

Emergent properties include examples like murmurations of starlings which can’t be predicted from looking at a single bird, ...

Handheld consoles are great for gaming on the go, but who wants to hold onto things all the time? Would it not be easier to ...

One of the nice things about magnetic storage is that as long as the magnetic layer remains intact, the data it contains ...

In this session of Logic Noise, we’ll be playing around with the voltage-controlled oscillator from a 4046 phase-locked loop chip, and using it to make “musical” pitches. It’s a lot of bang for the ...

The place is the historic lecture theater of the Royal Institution in London. The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system, ...

For the most part, Hackaday is all about hardware hacking projects. Sometimes, though, the real hack in a project isn’t building hardware, but rather building a community around the hardware. Case in ...

A computing platform is never really dead unless people stop developing new software for it. By that measure, the Commodore 64 is alive and well: new games, demos, and utilities are still being ...

The Nintendo Switch dock set a new bar for handheld docking user experience – just plug your console in to charge it, output image to your monitor, and keep it working with any USB peripherals of your ...

There are plenty of drones (and other gadgets) you can buy online that use proprietary control protocols. Of course, reverse-engineering one of these protocols is a hacker community classic. Today, ...