[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...

Spectroscopy is one of the most useful tools in all of science, and for The Hackaday Prize's Citizen Science effort [esben] is putting spectroscopy in the hands of every high school student. He's buil...

Discovered in 1997 by Aaron Spangler and never fixed, the WinNT/Win95 Automatic Authentication Vulnerability (IE Bug #4) is certainly an excellent vintage. In Windows 8 and 10, the same bug has now…

“Ugly” or “Manhattan” style circuit building is popular among ham radio folks. Basically, you solder the circuit point-to-point, using a solid copper plate as a backplane. &…

I’ll admit. When I saw the Othermill for the first time I thought it was just another mill with cheap Chinese hardware inside sold as a premium. I’m ashamed to say that I even trash tal…

Disruption is a basic tenet of the Open Hardware movement. How can my innovative use of technology disrupt your dinosaur of an establishment to make something better? Whether it’s an open-sou…

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Transistors have come a long way. Like everything else electronic, they've become both better and cheaper. Acco...