A laser cutter is a great tool to have in the shop, but like other CNC machines it can make a lousy neighbor. Vaporizing your stock means you end up breathing stuff you might rather not. If you&#82…

If your introduction to digital electronics came more years ago than you’d care to mention, the chances are you did so with 5V TTL logic. Above 2V but usually pretty close to 5V is a logic 1,…

In the future, nobody will have to cook for themselves: the robots will take care of it all for us. And fast! At least if folks like [Avidan Ross] have their way. He gave a talk on his 45-second pi…

[Gerardo Iglesias Galván] decided he wanted to try his hand at bug-bounty hunting -- where companies offer to pay hackers for finding vulnerabilities. Usually, this involves getting a device or acces...

If you have worked in an office that contained a typewriter, the chances are you've been in the workplace for several decades. Such has been the inexorable advance of workplace computing. It's a surpr...

No matter whether you call them “picosatellites” or “high altitude balloons” or “spaceblimps”, launching your own electronics package into the air, collecting so…

An amateur radio repeater used to be a complex assemblage of equipment that would easily fill a 19″ rack. There would be a receiver and a separate transmitter, usually repurposed from commerc…

He's a little cagey about the reasons, but [Ivan Miranda] plans to put a drill press on the internet. What could go wrong with that?

We'll take [Ivan] at his word that there's a method to this mad...

Hour glasses have long been a way to indicate time with sand, but the one-hour resolution isn't the best. [Erich] decided he would be do better and made a clock that actually wrote the time in the san...

Despite owning five, including the original Pebble, I’ve always been somewhat skeptical about smart watches. Even so, the leaked news that Fitbit is buying Pebble for “a small amount” has me sort o…

[LDX] first noticed the odd sounds coming out of his ceiling fan, regularly, on the hour and half-hour. Then he noticed that the lights were flickering as well. Figuring something was up, he built …

Within the past two months we’ve covered two separate incidents of 3D printing-related fires. One was caused by an ill-advised attempt to smooth a print with acetone heated over an open flame…

At the 2016 Hackaday Superconference, Amanda Brief and Jacob McEntire gave a talk on what they've been working on for the past few years. It's My.Flow, the world's first tampon monitor capable of trac...

You heard it here first: dash cams are going to be the next must-have item for your daily driver. Already reaching market saturation in some parts of the world but still fairly uncommon in North Amer...

A tired 1990 Chevy Lumina isn't the platform one would normally pick for a custom build. When you're drag boat racing team on a budget though, you use what you can get cheap. Normally small boats are...

[Jaidyn Edwards] is building a robot. This isn't going to be a normal robot, though, he's building a whegged robot, inspired by Boston Dynamic's version of the RHex design.

A wheg (TM) is a curved...

The holidays are almost here, and with that comes the traditional Mass Consumption of Consumer Goods and Gift Exchange. 3D printers are getting really good and really cheap, and it’s inevitab…

This is 2016, and almost every hacker dabbles with SMD parts now, unlike back in the day. This means investing in at least some specialized tools and equipment to make the job easier. One handy too…

Have you ever wanted to roll your own pinball machine? It's one of those kinds of builds where it's easy to go off the deep end. But if you're just getting your feet wet and want to mess around with d...

The first computer I personally owned had 256 bytes of memory. Bytes. The processor in my mouse and keyboard both have more memory than that. Lots more. Granted, 256 bytes was a bit extreme, but even ...