It’s hard to argue with nostalgia, but you can toss a bucket of cold facts over it. In the case...
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The Allen key turns 115 this year. It’s strange to believe that in all that time, no one has come...
When is a Raspberry Pi not a Raspberry Pi? Perhaps when it’s a Pi Zero-shaped board with an RP3A0 SoC...
Aside from a few stand-out programs — looking at you, Star Trek — by the late 1960s, TV had already...
was experimenting with GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR dongle. He created an SSB receiver and, lucky for us, he documented...
At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and...
Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness,...
Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good...
What color do you like your microcontroller boards? Blue? Red? Maybe white or black? Sadly, all of those are about...
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...
We did explicitly ask for projects that use a 555 timer for the One Hertz Challenge, but we weren’t expecting...
The human eye’s color perception is notoriously variable (see, for example, the famous dress), which makes it difficult to standardize...
Lightning is a powerful force, one seemingly capable of great destruction in the right circumstances. It announces itself with a...
Our hacker wrote in to let us know about a video he put together to explain the design of his...
Film maker wrote in to let us know about his recent documentary: Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa. The documentary covers...
The inside of this AF117 transistor can was a thriving whisker ecosystem. (Credit: Anthony Francis-Jones) AF114 germanium transistors and related...
While we know that many of you are reading Hackaday via our Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed, we suspect that...
Well, here’s an interesting idea: the service loop. Ever heard of it? We haven’t! In the video, the presenter explains...
AND gate implemented as diode-resistor logic. (Credit: Anthony Francis-Jones) The fun part about logic gates is that there are so...
When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of...
Predicting the future is a dangerous occupation. Few people can claim as much success as Arthur C. Clarke, the famous...
Communicating with space-based ham radio satellites might sound like it’s something that takes a lot of money, but in reality...
When a man wearing an Atari T-shirt tells you he’s buying Commodore it sounds like the plot for an improbable...
