The Allen key turns 115 this year. It’s strange to believe that in all that time, no one has come...
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The International Space Station has been in orbit around the Earth, at least in some form, since November of 1998...
A few days ago we brought you word that Google was looking to crack down on “sideloaded” Android applications. That...
When is a Raspberry Pi not a Raspberry Pi? Perhaps when it’s a Pi Zero-shaped board with an RP3A0 SoC...
An adult human can produce about 100 Wh of mechanical power whilst cycling, which is a not inconsiderable amount if...
Aside from a few stand-out programs — looking at you, Star Trek — by the late 1960s, TV had already...
Open any consumer electronics catalog from around the 1980s to the early 2000s and you are overwhelmed by a smörgåsbord...
was experimenting with GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR dongle. He created an SSB receiver and, lucky for us, he documented...
Data centers and the electrification of devices that previously ran on fossil fuels is driving increased demand for electricity around...
At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and...
People have long been interested in very low frequency (VLF) radio signals. But it used to be you pretty much...
As NASA’s Artemis program trundles onwards at the blazing pace of a disused and very rusty crawler-transporter, the next mission...
Designing a circuit is a lot easier on paper, where components have well-defined values, or lacking that, at least well-defined...
Launched in 2004, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory – formerly the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer – has been dutifully studying...
Normally when you think solar projects, you think of big photovoltaic cells. But a photodiode is just an inefficient, and...
If you want to save a little money on a thermal camera, or if you just enjoy making your own,...
Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness,...
“Sorry, my mic was muted…” With the rise of video calls, we’ve all found ourselves rushing to mute or unmute...
Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good...
Sometimes, there are too many choices in this world. My benchtop function generator can output a sine, square, or saw...
We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers...
Frequency! It’s an important thing to measure, which is why built a frequency counter some time ago. The four-function unit...
Learning Morse Code is no longer a requirement for HAMs in many jurisdictions, but it’s still a nice skill to...
WarGames fans, rejoice: has rebooted WOPR for real. In his latest hack, the Falcon, he recreates the iconic AI from...
In the formative experiences of most Hackaday readers there will almost certainly be a number of common threads, for example...
