Al and I were talking on the podcast about the Home Assistant home automation hub software. In particular, about how ...

A significant fraction of people can’t handle lactose, like [HGModernism]. Rather than accept a cruel, ice cream free ...

Did OneWire of DS18B20 sensor fame ever fascinate you in its single-data-line simplicity? If so, then you’ll like PJON ...

There are a few very different pathways to building a product, and we gotta applaud the developers taking care to take the open-source path. Today’s highlight is [Mentra], who is releasing ...

Tis The Season, for those who are so inclined, to loft themselves to the top of a steep snow-covered hill and then go downhill, really fast. And if something gets in their way, turn. Whether they be ...

A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, effective, and inexpensive devices. But [Paulo Marques] observed that when it ...

Not a huge percentage of our readers probably get their heat from diesel fuel, but it’s not uncommon in remote areas where other fuels are hard to come-by. If you’re in one of those ...

Cats can be wonderful companions, but they can also be aloof and boring to hang out with. If you want to get a little more out of the relationship, consider obsessively tracking your cat’s ...

After scouring the second-hand shops and the endless pages of eBay for original video game hardware, a pattern emerges. The ...

Have you ever found yourself looking at the insects of the Paleozoic era, including the dragonfly Meganeuropsis permiana with ...

The choice of a good keyboard is something which consumes a lot of time for many Hackaday readers, judging by the number of ...

It sometimes seems as though we are in a constant tussle over privacy between governments and the governed, with each year ...