If you’re like most makers, you have a few product ideas kicking about, but you may not have made it all the way to production of those things. If you’re thinking about making the ...

Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to ...

Mick Jagger famously said that you cain’t always get what you want. But this is Hackaday, and we make what we want or can’t get. Case in point: [Andrew Tudoroi] is drawn to retro LEDs ...

Jonathan Bennett talks Session and cryptocurrency skepticism with Kee Jeffries! Why fork Signal? How does Session manage to ...

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, ...

In the process of making everything ‘smart’, it would seem that rings have become the next target, and they keep getting new features. The ring that [Aaron Christophel] got his mittens ...

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space ...

Update: The USPS has now resumed acceptance of inbound packages from China. According to the updated Service Alert, they are ...

Some troubling news hit overnight as the United States Post Office announced via a terse “Service Alert” that they would ...

Surface mount devices have gotten really small, so small that a poorly timed sneeze can send your 0603 and 0402 parts off to live with the dust motes lurking at the edge of your bench. While ...

This technique shared by [Andy Kong] is for 3D printed lenses, but would probably be worth a shot for any resin prints that ...

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s ...