Making a truly flat surface is a modern engineering feat, and not a small one. Even making something straight without ...

Al and I were talking about the IBM 9020 FAA Air Traffic Control computer system on the podcast. It’s a strange machine, made ...

Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors ...

When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting ...

Today’s PCs are locked up with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices so much so that modern Windows versions insist on having ...

If there is one thing we took from [azwankhairul345’s] environmental monitor project, it is this: sensors and computing power ...

When you think of a high performance liquid rocket, what do you think of? Beer kegs? No? Well, when [Ryan] from the YouTube ...

We live in a golden age for MIDI controllers. [rheslip]’s contribution to the milieu is a twisty take on the format, in that it’s covered in an array of knobs. Thus the name—Twisty 2.

[Labpacks] wanted to build a robot car controlled by his phone. As a Hackaday reader, of course you probably can imagine building the car. Most could probably even write a phone application to do the ...

Attributed to Picasso was the notion that when art critics get together they talk about content, style, trend, and meaning; but that when painters get together they talk about where to get the ...

Lithium batteries have taken over as the primary battery chemistry from applications ranging from consumer electronics to ...

D printing is wonderful, but sometimes you just don’t want to look at a plastic piece. Beethoven’s bust wouldn’t look quite ...