In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org,...
Hackaday
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...
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...
When you are capturing audio from a speaker, you are rarely capturing the actual direct output of such a system....
For the most part, the Radio Apocalypse series has focused on the radio systems developed during the early days of...
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...