The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and...
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If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather...
The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was...
When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One...
The Unihiker K10 is intended to be a small single-board solution for light AI and machine learning tasks. However, you...
The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance...
Just about every laptop, desktop, and smartphone in your life can tell you the date, time, and current weather predictions....
We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in...
In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org,...
Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden...
While it sounds like the start of a joke, Australian shipmaker Incat Tasmania isn’t kidding around about electric ships. Hull...
Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a...
If you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In...
Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was...
We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye...
Try an experiment. Next time you are in a room with someone, ask them to name everything in the room....
There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the RISC...
Superlatives are tricky things. ’s guide “How to make Simplest ever Oscilloscope Clock” falls into that category. It’s that word,...
Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader. Working with old-school gear can...
WiFi is an excellent protocol, but it certainly has its weaknesses. Its range in even a normal home is relatively...
George Orwell might’ve predicted the surveillance state, but it’s still surprising how many entities took 1984 as a how-to manual...
As you might expect, the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has a fascination with radio signals from space. While...
At 5:20 PM on November 9, 1965, the Tuesday rush hour was in full bloom outside the studios of WABC...
Looking at gasoline prices today, it’s hard to believe that there was a time when 75 cents a gallon seemed...
Finding older versions of particular software can be a real chore, all too often only made possible by the sheer...
