Every Boy Scout or Girl Guide probably had the experience of building a simple solar oven: an insulated box, some aluminum ...

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

Over on YouTube [Matt Brown] hacks a Chinese security camera recently banned by the US government. If you didn’t hear about this you can find out more over here: Major US online retailers ...

Generally people equate the Arduino hardware platforms with MCU-centric options that are great for things like low-powered ...

Glasses are perhaps the most non-invasive method of vision correction, followed by contact lenses. Each have their drawbacks ...

There’s a joke that does the rounds, about a teenager being given a dial phone and being unable to make head nor tail of it. ...

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 ...

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, ...

Over on YouTube [Applied Science] shows us how to make an f/0.38 camera lens using an oil immersion microscope objective. The f-number of a lens indicates how well it will perform in low-light. To ...

It was Elliot and Dan on the podcast today, taking a look at the best the week had to offer in terms of your hacks. We started with surprising news about the rapidly approaching Supercon keynote; ...