The spectrum of laser technologies available to hackers has gradually widened from basic gas lasers through CO2 tubes, diode ...

As any generation of people get older, they tend to look back fondly on their formative years when there was less responsibility and more wonder. Even if things have objectively improved, we often ...

Switching power supplies are familiar to Hackaday readers, whether they have a fairly conventional transformer, are a buck, a ...

F5 is unintentionally dabbling in releasing the source code behind their BIG-IP networking gear, announcing this week that an ...

The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing ...

Arguably, the golden age of browser gaming occurred in the 00s mostly revolving around Adobe Flash. This was an era with high ...

When you think of a radio telescope, you usually think of a giant dish antenna pointing skyward. But [vhuvanmakes] built Wavy-Scope, a handheld radio telescope that can find the Sun and the Moon, ...

The Component Abuse Challenge is dragging all sorts of old, half-forgotten hacks out of the woodwork, but this has got to be ...

We at Hackaday are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Murray-Smith. The prolific experimenter had spent over a ...

Our hacker [Pat Deegan] of Psychogenic Technologies shows us the entire process of designing an analog ASIC. An ASIC is of ...

For those who were alive and conscious before the modern Internet, there were in fact things that went “viral” and became ...

There’s something extremely calming and pleasing about watching a screensaver that merely bounces some kind of image around, ...