Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden...
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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...
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...
Finding older versions of particular software can be a real chore, all too often only made possible by the sheer...
You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What...
The older Raspberry Pi boards have had a long life, serving faithfully since 2012. Frankly, their continued support is a...
When we see an extremely DIY project, you always get someone who jokes “well, you didn’t collect sand and grow...
Radio experimenters often need a variable capacitor to tune their circuits, as the saying goes, for maximum smoke. In decades...
Although to many of us the progression from ‘standard definition’ TV and various levels of high-definition at 720p or better...
CRTs don’t last forever, and neither do the electronics that drive them. When you have a screen starting to go...
It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and...
A laptop is one of the greatest tools at the disposal of a hacker. They come in all manner of...
Tang FPGA boards are affordable, and has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while....
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one...
For the past years people have been collecting disposable vapes primarily for their lithium-ion batteries, but as these disposable vapes...
Over on YouTube our hacker shows us how to make a simple MOSFET tester. This is a really neat, useful,...
Here at Hackaday Central, we fancy that we know a little something about Linux. But if you’d tasked us to...
Do you remember the global chip shortage? Somehow it seems so long ago, but it’s not even really been three...
How hard can it be to create your own inductors? Get a wire. Coil it up. Right? Well, the devil...
The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people....