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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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; ...

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. ...