While we use a lot of CAD tools, many of us are fans of Tinkercad — especially for working with kids or just doing something quick. But many people dislike having to work across the Internet ...

Finely powdered aluminium can make almost anything more pyrotechnically interesting, from fireworks to machine shop cleanups – even ceramics, as [Degree of Freedom] discovered. He was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the universe to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven ...