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...

In what might be one of the coolest applications of laser cutting, joinery, puzzles, writing, and bookbinding, [Brady Whitney] has created the Codex Silenda -- a literal puzzle book of magnificent pro...

Following on the heels of Mirai, a family of malware exploiting Internet of Things devices, [Sam Edwards] and [Ioannis Profetis] of Rapidity Networks have discovered a malicious Internet worm dubbed ...

The de facto standard for Raspberry Pi operating systems is Raspbian--a Debian based distribution specifically for the diminutive computer. Of course, you have multiple choices and there might not be...

A few years ago, [Mike] heard about orthotic devices for people in wheelchairs that make it easier to them to move their arms. His daughter had the opportunity to demo one of these devices, and the re...

The Enigma machine as used by the German military during World War Two exerts a curious fascination among our community of hardware hackers and makers. Perhaps it is the mechanical complexity of th…

One of our favorite hacker-scavengers on YouTube, [The Post-Apocalyptic Inventor], has been connecting his Raspberry Pi up to nearly every display that he’s got in his well-stocked junk pile.…

You don’t need any fancy tools. A CNC machine is nice. A 3D printer can help. Laser cutters are just great. However, when it comes to actually making something, none of this is exactly necess…

[ttsiodras] tells an epic tale of getting a custom Debian kernel installed on an Asus MemoPAD (ME103K) tablet. Skipping to the end of the saga, he discovers what looks like serial data coming out o…

Welcome back to the final chapter in our journey exploring two-stage tentacle mechanisms. This is where we arm you with the tools and techniques to get one of these cretins alive-and-kicking in you…

Early today, some party unleashed a massive DDoS attack against Dyn, a major DNS host. This led to a number of websites being completely inaccessible. DNS is the backbone of the Internet. It is the ph...

So far, humans have had the edge in the ability to identify objects by touch. but not for long. Using Google's Project Soli, a miniature radar that detects the subtlest of gesture inputs, the [St. And...

We've featured the work of [Modpurist] before, but his latest hack is wonderful in its simplicity. He wanted to create a more authentic Game Boy feel on his iPhone, so he printed out and stuck a skin...