As you may have heard, the iPhone 7 is ditching the 3.5 mm headphone jack in the name of progress and courage. Whatever your take on that, it leaves the end user out in the cold if -- for instance -- ...

Have you ever wondered what a song looks like? What it feels like in your hands?

Those odd questions have an answer that has taken shape over at [Reify], which has developed a way to turn sound wav...

When sharpening a knife, it is critical to have the knife at the right angle. A knife jig handles this for you, letting you focus on getting the edge right. Y

ou could just buy one, but where's the...

An IMSI catcher is an illicit mobile phone base station designed to intercept the traffic from nearby mobile phones by persuading them to connect to it rather than the real phone company  tower. Th…

[Jason] learned a lot by successfully automating this meat smoker. This is just the first step in [Jason’s] smoker project. He decided to begin by hacking a cheaper charcoal-fed unit first, b…

Earlier in the month, [Elliot Williams] quipped that it had been far too long since we saw a VFD-based amplifier build. Well, that dry spell is over. This week, [kodera2t] started showing off his d…

Humans aren’t supposed to be cooped up indoors all day, but who wants to be bothered by UV rays, insects, allergens, traffic, physical activity, and other people? On the other hand, a gloomy …

The Arduino has proved to be a great platform for electronics projects. The same goes for the Raspberry Pi. However, there are some projects that fall in the gap between these two options. Projects th...

So you've built out your complete home automation setup, with little network-connected "things" scattered all around your home. You've got net-connected TVs, weather stations, security cameras, and wh...

Looking to use up some more of his flexible LED strip, Hackaday alum and Tindie writer [Jeremy Cook] tried for a funky accent to his dinner or coffee table: light up coasters. Using his CNC router …

Check out the great workmanship that went into [TonyRobot]'s coffee vending version of ROBOT CAFE at Tokyo Maker Faire 2016. We'd really like to see this in action, so if anyone has more success th...

There are it seems no wireless-enabled light switches available in the standard form factor of a UK light switch. At least, that was the experience of [loldavid6], when he decided he needed one. Also,...

Simple, elegant, and well executed. This solenoid engine build is everything we've come to love about [Matthias Wandel]'s work. If you don't recognize his name you probably remember the name of his si...

Flying a kite on a stormy day is not the wisest thing to do, except, of course, you're intentionally trying to catch a lightning bolt. The guys from [kreosan] replicated the famous experiment, with w...

[Cameron Meredith] starts the Hackaday.io page for one of his projects by quoting a Hackaday write-up: “A timepiece is rather a rite of passage in the world of hardware hacking”. We sta…

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen DIYers sending music over a laser beam but the brothers [Armand] and [Victor] are certainly in contention for sending the music the longest distance…

One of the major reasons anyone would turn to a 3D printer, even if they have access to a machine shop, is that there are some shapes that are not possible to make with conventional "subtractive manu...

So you like watching stupid stuff? Here you go, a scene from Bones that tops the infamous 'IP backtrace with Visual Basic' or 'four-handed keyboard' scenes from other TV shows. Someone hacked the bo...

Group entry hacks are a favorite for hacker social groups. Why use old fashioned keys when you can use newfangled electronic keys? If you are looking to build a simple RFID-based security system to…

High up on the list of desirable technologies that are edging into the realm of the affordable for the experimenter is the thermal camera. Once the exclusive preserve of those with huge budgets, ov…