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

Few things rival the usability and speed of a full-sized keyboard for text input. For decades, though, keyboards were mostly wired, which can limit where you use your favorite one. To address ...

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 ...

[Labpacks] wanted to build a robot car controlled by his phone. As a Hackaday reader, of course you probably can imagine building the car. Most could probably even write a phone application to do the ...

After having been sent a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) based clock for a review, [Anthony Francis-Jones] took the opportunity to explain how these types of displays work. Although VFDs are ...

Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when ...

It’s possible to improve your 3D prints in all kinds of ways. You can tune your printer’s motion, buy better filament, or tinker endlessly with any number of slicer settings. Or, as ...

Sleep apnea is a debilitating disease that many sufferers don’t even realize they have. Those afflicted with the condition ...

After the swivel by Helium Inc. towards simply running distributed WiFi hotspots after for years pushing LoRaWAN nodes, many of the associated hardware became effectively obsolete. This led to ...

One of the good things about simulating circuits is that you can easily change component values trivially. In the real world, ...

If you’ve been following [Joe Barnard]’s rocketry projects for the past few years, you’ll know that one of his primary goals has been to propulsively land a model rocket like SpaceX. Now, 7 years into ...