When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting ...

If there is one thing we took from [azwankhairul345’s] environmental monitor project, it is this: sensors and computing power ...

Today’s PCs are locked up with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices so much so that modern Windows versions insist on having ...

When you think of a high performance liquid rocket, what do you think of? Beer kegs? No? Well, when [Ryan] from the YouTube ...

Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors ...

Lithium batteries have taken over as the primary battery chemistry from applications ranging from consumer electronics to ...

D printing is wonderful, but sometimes you just don’t want to look at a plastic peice. Beethoven’s bust wouldn’t look quite ...

Few things rival the usability and speed of a full-sized keyboard for text input. For decades, though, keyboards were mostly ...

We miss the slide rule. It isn’t so much that we liked getting an inexact answer using a physical moving object. But to ...

Sometimes, there are too many choices in this world. My benchtop function generator can output a sine, square, or saw wave anywhere from 0.01 Hz up to 60 MHz? Way too many choices. At least, that’s ...

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams took a break to talk about their favorite hacks last week. You can drop in to hear about articulated mirrors, triacs, and even continuous ...

What happens when a traditional board game company decides to break into electronic gaming? Well, if it were a UK gaming ...