The concept of free will is the perfect example of human arrogance ever conceived. If a gas molecule collides with another gas molecule, simple physics can determine the momentum of the first gas mole...

If the [realjohnnybravo] is the one from the show, it appears he finally managed to get a girlfriend, marry her, and produce at least one son. As the old schoolyard rhyme goes, first comes love, then...

Anyone who has worked in an office with a vending machine knows this problem well: someone wants a snack or a drink from the vending machine, but doesn't have any small change. So, they proceed to wal...

A quality bench power supply is essential for electronics work. Nobody wants to go through the trouble of digging through their electronics bin just to find a wall wart with the right output. And, eve...

Radio telescopes are one of the more high-profile pieces of scientific apparatus. There is an excitement to stories of radio astronomers of old probing the mysteries of the Universe on winter night…

Proxxon is a mostly German maker of above average micro tools. They do sell a tiny milling machine in various flavors, from manual to full CNC. [Goran Mahovlić] did not buy that. He did, however, co...

[Jason Holt] wrote in to tell about of the release of his PRUDAQ project. It's a dual-channel 10-bit ADC cape that ties into the BeagleBone's Programmable Realtime Units (PRUs) to shuttle through up t...

Going to DEF CON this week? Getting into Vegas early? We're having a meetup on Wednesday, in the middle of the day, in the desert. It's all going down at the grave of James T. Kirk. Rumor has it, the ...

Nixie tubes, electromagnets, levitation, and microcontrollers — this project has “Hackaday” written all over it! Time Flies: Levitating Nixie Clock comes from [Tony Adams], and us…

Linear CCDs are an exceptionally cool component. They can be used for DIY spectrometers, and if you’re feeling very adventurous, a homemade version of those crappy handheld scanners of the ea…

Lastpass is a great piece of software when it comes to convenience, but a recent simple hack shows just how insecure software like it can be. [Mathias Karlsson] nabbed a nice $1000 bounty for its d…

How do artificial intelligences get so intelligent? The same way we do, they get a library card and head on over to read up on their favorite topics. Or at least that’s the joke that [Jakob W…

At frustratingly regular intervals, the debate around gun control crops up, and every time there is a discussion about smart guns. The general idea is to have a gun that will not fire unless authenti...

[Chandler Dickinson] did his monthly sweep of the floor in his blacksmith's shop when it occurred to him that all that metal dust had to go somewhere, didn't it? So he did the only reasonable thing an...

VCF West is happening this Saturday and Sunday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. This on of our favorite events; a celebration of the hardware that paved the way for our modern worl...

Atmel put out some new, small microcontroller chips early this year, and we're just now starting to think about how we'd use them. The ATtiny102 and ATtiny104 (datasheet) sell for about a buck (US) a...

Hackaday was at HOPE last weekend, and that means we got the goods from what is possibly the best security conference on the east coast. Some of us, however, were trapped in the vendor area being a…

Copenhagen Suborbitals just launched their latest amateur liquid fuel rocket. Why? Because they want to strap someone to a bigger amateur liquid fuel rocket and launch them into space. We’ve …

Have you ever put a load of dirty clothing in the washing machine and set the cycle running, only to forget all about it and discover a mouldering congealed mass in the machine a few days later? [X…

Flashlights are handy around the house, but what if you want a stealthier approach to illuminating the night? Infrared LED flashlights can be acquired at relatively low cost, but where's the fun in th...