[Mathieu] wrote in with his laser target practice game. It's not the most amazing hack in the history of hackery, but it's an excellent example of the type of simple and fun things you can do with jus...

There was a time when the idea of building your own single-sideband transceiver was too daunting for all but the most hardcore of amateur radio constructors. After all the process of creating SSB is c...

The creators of this Hackaday Prize entry say every month a new 3D-printed prosthetic solution comes on the scene. That doesn't mean they're not doing something different with their entry; yes, they'...

The team at [2PrintBeta] required a bunch of cables, heat shrink, and braid to be cut for their customers. They looked into an industrial cable cutter, but decided the price was a little too high, …

News comes from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, of something of a coup for their Compute Module product. Support for it is to be integrated into NEC's line of commercial displays, and the electronics gia...

My introduction to circuit protection came at the tender age of eight. Being a curious lad with an inventive – and apparently self-destructive – bent, I decided to make my mother a lamp…

It has been announced that the BBC are to pass their micro:bit educational microcontroller board on to a non-profit-making foundation which will aim to take the project to a global audience. The litt...

Nobody's perfect. Sometimes you're up late at night writing a blog post and you stumble upon an incredible story. You write it up, and it ends up being, well, incredible. IEEE Spectrum took the bait o...

It was one of the more interesting consumer tech stories floating around at the turn of the century, a disposable cell phone manufactured using a multi-layer folded paper circuit board with tracks …

The best gaming platform is a cloud server with a $4,000 dollar graphics card you can rent when you need it. [Larry] has  done this sort of thing before with Amazon’s EC2, but recently Micros…

[NightHawkInLight] wants what may be the impossible - a dirt cheap replacement for a laser cutter or a water jet. He's got this crazy idea about using electrolysis to etch sheet steel parts, but he ju...

Back in the old days, the cool kids didn’t have an Apple II or a Trash-80. The cool kids had jobs, and those jobs had Vaxxen all over the place. The usual way of working with a Vax would have…

Students with visual impairments can have difficulty with visual and spatial relationships. 3D printers can print almost everything, and with a lot of CAD work, this project in the Hackaday Prize prov...

Why would you want to live in a missile silo is the wrong question. Why wouldn’t you want to live in a missile silo is the right question. You’ll have weird, antiquated machinery hangin…

So, wether you've blown your house's breakers while cranking up the power on your latest project or a storm has brought low the local power grid, what do you do if you desperately need coffee with no ...

Today’s engineers are just as good as the ones that came before, but that should not be the case and there is massive room for improvement. Improvement that can be realized by looking for the best …

The "Navigation Thing" was designed and built by [Jan Mrázek] as part of a night game activity for high school students during week-long seminar. A night-time path through a forest had stations with ...

Join Hackaday for the vanguard of cool emerging technologies next week at our meetup in New York.

Like all our meetups, we've gathered some of the neatest technologists to spill the beans on what ...

Looking at the ingredient list of some popular processed foods will produce a puzzled look on the typical hacker's face. Tricalcium phosphate, thiamine mononitrate, zinc proteinate, pyridoxine hydrocl...

In our latest episode of "IoT-Schadenfreude Theater" we bring you the story of [Mark], a British man who can't boil water. Or more specifically, a man who can't integrate MQTT with Amazon Echo, or IFT...