Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind ’s clever...
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When you think of a radio telescope, you usually think of a giant dish antenna pointing skyward. But built Wavy-Scope,...
The fact that there exist in our world flat rocks that make lightning when you point them at the sun...
While some of us may have learned C in order to interact with embedded electronics or deep with computing hardware...
bought a cheap arbitrary waveform generator and noted that it only had a two-pin power cord. That has its ups...
Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend to be fairly fixable, assuming...
Has anyone noticed that news stories have gotten shorter and pithier over the past few decades, sometimes seeming like summaries...
We think of radios as audio devices, but for people who are visually impaired, it can be difficult to tell...
As Ethernet became the world-wide standard for wired networking, there was one nagging problem. You already have to plug in...
The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and...
If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather...
The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was...
When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One...
Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden...
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...
