We’ve all crashed quadcopters. It’s almost inevitable. Everything is going along fine and dandy ’till mother nature opens her big mouth a blows a nasty gust of wind right at you, …

[Nils Ferber] is a product designer from Germany. His portfolio includes everything from kitchen appliances to backpacks. One project, though, has generated a bit of attention. It’s a micro w…

There is something about a wooden boat that should be facsinating to most makers, the craftsmanship and level of work that goes into creating a sea-, lake-, or river-worthy craft with smooth lines, fr...

Building a battery out of common household products is actually pretty simple. All that is required is two dissimilar metals and some sort of electrolyte to facility the transfer of charge. A popul…

Hackaday readers (and writers) are an odd bunch. While the rest of the tech press falls over for the newest, shiniest CPU on the market, we’re the type who’s more interested the unexplo…

By far the most popular use for a Raspberry Pi is an emulation console. For an educational device, that's fine - someone needs to teach kids how to plug a USB cable into a device and follow RetroPi tu...

[Kyle Stewart-Frantz] took one look at a black and white photo of a mountain stream, and decided it was way too boring. How much cooler would it be if the water was moving! Like any good hacker wor…

This is from the Daily Fail, but a working Apple I is going up on the auction block. It's expected to bring in $317,693 USD. In other news, we're going to be at the Vintage Computer Festival East at...

[Jason] converted an Easy Bake Oven to USB. If you have to ask why you’ll never know. Easy Bake Ovens have changed a lot since you burnt down your house by installing a 100 Watt light bulb in…

[gw0udm] had an ancient monitored alarm system fitted to their home, and decided it was time to upgrade to something a little more modern. They chose a system from Texecom, but when it came time to ho...

Transparent, conductive glass is cool stuff and enables LCD panels and more. But the commercial method involves sputtering indium-tin oxide, which means a high vacuum and some high voltages, which …

[Sami Pietikäinen] was working on an embedded Linux device based on an Atmel SAMA5D3x ARM-A5 processor. Normally, embedded Linux boxes will boot up off of flash memory or an SD card. But if you're me...

Today the 2017 Hackaday Prize begins!

This is Hackaday's global engineering initiative that encourages people to direct their skill and energy to make the world a better place. We call it the Ha...

There are many things people do with spare rooms. Some make guest rooms, others make baby rooms, while a few even make craft rooms. What do hackers do with spare rooms? Turn them into giant 3D prin…

Voice recognition is this year's model for home automation, but aside from feeling like you're onboard the Aries 1b arguing with HAL 9000, it just doesn't do it for our geeky selves. So what's even ge...

[Johan] has slipped down the rabbit hole of making musical instruments. His poison? Laser harp MIDI controllers. Having never made one before, he thought he would start small and then iterate using wh...

Is [SpongeBob SquarePants] art? Opinions will differ, but there's little doubt about how cool it is to render a pixel-mapped time-lapse portrait of Bikini Bottom's most famous native son with a roving...

It seems [Pete Prodoehl] was working on a project that involved counting baseballs as they fell out of a chute, with the counting part being sensed by a long lever microswitch. Now we all know ther…

Children of the 1980s who had an interest in technology were lucky indeed. As well as the first generations of home computers at their disposal they had the expectation to program them, something whic...

We’ve seen a lot of hacks with the nRF24l01+ 2.4 GHz radio modules. The tiny chips pack a lot of bang for the buck. Since the radios can switch frequencies relatively quickly, [Shubham Paul] …