If you take a video of a spinning wheel, you’ll probably notice that the spokes appear to turn more slowly than the wheel is actually rotating, and sometimes in the wrong direction. This is caused ...

Many of us will have seen the portable solar panels offered on our favourite online purveyors of electronics, but some who ...

It seems to be becoming a bit of a theme that consumer electronics are dying not due to some critical fault, but due to ...

As unloved as IBM’s PCjr was, with only a one-year production run, it’s hard to complain about the documentation available ...

A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered ...

If you follow [Maker’s Muse] on YouTube, you know he’s as passionate about robot fights these days as he is about the tools ...

Although 3D printing it a great tool for making all sorts of things, the nature of the plastics used in most desktop FDM ...

In this session of Logic Noise, we’ll be playing around with the voltage-controlled oscillator from a 4046 phase-locked loop chip, and using it to make “musical” pitches. It’s a lot of bang for the ...

3D mice with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) motion are highly valued by professional CAD users. However, the entry-level versions typically cost upwards of $150 and are produced by a single ...

For the most part, Hackaday is all about hardware hacking projects. Sometimes, though, the real hack in a project isn’t building hardware, but rather building a community around the hardware. Case in ...

If you read Japanese, you might have seen the book “Design and Implementation of Microkernels” by [Seiya Nuda]. An appendix covers how to write your own operating system for RISC-V in about 1,000 ...

The place is the historic lecture theater of the Royal Institution in London. The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system, ...