Last week we covered the past and current state of artificial intelligence — what modern AI looks like, the differences between weak and strong AI, AGI, and some of the philosophical ideas about wh…

As a hacker, chances are that you have built a homopolar motor, as you only need three things: a battery, a magnet and some copper wire. There are zillions of videos on YouTube. This time we want to s...

The International Space Station, or ISS, has been in orbit in its various forms now for almost twenty years. During that time many of us will have stood outside on a clear night and seen it pass ov…

[Juan Carlos Jiménez] has reverse engineered a router — specifically, a Huawei HG533. While that in itself may not sound substantial, what he has done is write a series of blog posts which ca…

It sounds a little like a Theremin and looks a lot like the contents of your scrap bin. But it’s a unique musical instrument called a modulin, and after a few teasers we finally have some det…

Have you ever had a laptop you just wish you didn’t have to retire when its specification becomes to aged for your needs? Wouldn’t it be great if you could upgrade it and keep using the…

If you've ever cast your eye towards the rooftops, you'll be familiar with the Yagi antenna. A dipole radiator with a reflector and a series of passive director elements in front of it, you'll find th...

In the world of late-stage capitalism, unchecked redistribution of wealth to the upper classes has led to the development of so-called ultraluxury watches. Free from any reasonable constraints on mate...

It may look more like a Companion Cube than R2-D2, but the ISS is getting an astromech droid of sorts.

According to [Trey Smith] of the NASA Ames Research Center, Astrobee is an autonomous robot t...

Even if you’re reading this on a piece of paper that was hand-delivered to you in the Siberian wilderness, somewhere someone had to use energy to run a printer and also had to somehow get all…

A lot of embedded systems are running Linux on platforms like Raspberry Pi. Since Linux is fully functional from a command line and fully network-capable, it is possible to run servers that you&#82…

Hackaday.io just welcomed the 200,000th registered user! We are the world's largest repository of open hardware projects and Hackaday.io is proving its worth as the world's most vibrant technology c...

Wherever you may live in the world, who do you wish to smile upon you and deliver good fortune? You may be surprised to discover that for a significant number of Brits this role is taken by someone…

There's a wide world to explore when it comes to papercraft, but we reserve special praise for fully functional builds. [Aliaksei Zholner's] working papercraft organ is a stunning example of what ca...

You say you need some graphene so you can invent the Next Big Thing, but you can’t be bothered with processes that yield a few measly milligrams of the precious stuff. Luckily for you there&#…

Did you forget about Valentine's Day? Do you need a quick project to get ready for Valentine's Day? [Becky Stern] has you covered. She's whipped up a neat Internet-enabled Valentine project which sho...

The 80's were a golden age of Sci-Fi cartoons. We had Transformers, Voltron, and of course, Thundercats. The story of feline humanoids on third earth has stuck with a few hackers, including [Juan Garc...

Knives are tools that rely heavily on material quality to do their job right. A knife made of cheap steel won't hold an edge well, and blunt knives are more likely to cause injury, or at the least, be...

We’ve seen our fair share of Altoids mint tin projects and it seems the tin… can always house another interesting project. This time [MWAGNER] managed to make his long time idea of havi…

Yes, the pun was ripped off the article that got our attention . It was just too good not to share. A team of researchers in Japan created an artificial honeybee, a small drone that is meant to cros...

This Friday, we're talking RF. Join us for a discussion on designing RF products with Hackaday's very own Jenny List. It's all happening in the Hack Chat on hackaday.io.

When Jenny isn't busy writi...