It’s just about all we can think about over here: the week leading up to the 2025 Superconference. From what we hear, it’s ...

It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold ...

When we first saw [DiPDoT’s] homebrew computer, we thought it was an Altair 8800. But, no. While it has a very familiar front panel, the working parts are all based on relays. While it ...

We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, ...

Connectors are wonderful and terrible things. Wonderful, in that splicing wires every time you need to disassemble something ...

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those ...

Following up on the recent test of a set of purported ADS1115 ADCs sourced from Amazon [James Bowman] didn’t just test a ...

This week, a US federal court has ruled that NSO Group is no longer allowed to use Pegasus spyware against users of WhatsApp.

For any mission-critical computer system, it’s a good idea to think about how the system will handle power outages. At the very least it’s a good idea to give the computer enough time ...

Our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] is known for being the mind behind the Commodore 128, a machine which famously had both a 6502 and a Z80 processor on board. The idea of a machine which could do ...

We would have enjoyed [Harishankar’s] tear down of a robot vacuum cleaner, even if it didn’t have a savage twist at the end.

There’s nothing fun about a Sisyphean task unless you’re watching one being carried out by someone or something else. In that case, it can be mesmerizing like this Arduino-driven kinetic sand table.