People have long been interested in very low frequency (VLF) radio signals. But it used to be you pretty much...
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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...
The HP 115BR is not one of the most well-known products from Hewlett-Packard. And yet, it was remarkably important nonetheless....
We’ve been loving the variety of entries to the 2025 One-Hertz Challenge. Many a clock has been entered, to be...
Do you find an odd comfort in the uncanny, regular intonations of a Numbers Station? Then check out ’s numbers...
What color do you like your microcontroller boards? Blue? Red? Maybe white or black? Sadly, all of those are about...
always has interesting blog posts and videos, even when we don’t understand all the German in them. The latest? Computer...
The Juno spacecraft was launched towards Jupiter in August of 2011 as part of the New Frontiers series of spacecraft,...
Many people have looked Death in the eye sockets and survived to tell others about it, but few situations speak...
After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone...
One of the categories we chose for the One Hertz Challenge is “Could Have Used a 555.” What about when...
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks...
