Do you live in an area where you (or your car) are locked in by a gate? If so, you may know how [Alexander Else] feels about letting his guests in and out constantly with a remote control — i…

One of the great predictions of desktop computing from the mid 1990s was that we would all move to so-called thin clients, stripped-out desktop computers containing only processor, display driver, …

We've seen some crazy music production stations over the years. But this synthesizer system may just take the cake. Starship One is the creation of [Marc Brasse]. At first glance, this music battle st...

It seems to be a perennial feature of our wider community of hackers and makers, that television production companies come up with new ideas for shows featuring us and our skills. Whether it is a real...

Tindie is a great place to find uncommon electronic components or weird/interesting boards. [Xose Pérez] periodically “stroll the isles” of Tindie to keep up on cool new components, and when he saw…

Formlabs have just announced the Fuse 1 -- a selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printer that creates parts out of nylon. Formlabs is best known for their Form series of resin-based SLA 3D printers, a...

3D printing is a technique we've all been using for ages at home, or via Shapeways, but if you are designing a product, 3D printing will only get you so far. It's crude, slow, expensive, and has lots ...

Long before everyone had a smartphone or two, the implementation of a telephone was much stranger than today. Most telephones had real, physical buttons. Even more bizarrely, these phones were conne...

For all the press WiFi and Bluetooth-connected Internet of Things toasters get, there's still a lot of fun to be had below one Gigahertz. For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Adam] is working on an open sou...

Ergonomic. Wireless. Low-latency. Minimalist. Efficient. How far do you go when you design your own open-source keyboard? Checking off these boxes and providing the means for others to do so, Reddi…

Whether it's wheels, tracks, feet, or even a roly-poly body like BB-8, most robots have to deal with an essential problem: dirt and grit can get into the moving bits and cause problems. Some research...

Delivery by drone is a reality and Amazon has been pursuing better and faster methods of autonomous package delivery. The US Patent and Trademark Office just issued a patent to Amazon for a shipping l...

You're happily FPVing through the wild blue yonder, dodging and jinking through the obstacles of your favorite quadcopter racing course. You get a shade too close to a branch and suddenly the picture ...

Only a Human would understand the pithy sarcasm in "You had one job". When [tterev3]'s RopeBot the Robot became sentient and asked "What is my purpose?", [tterev3] had to lay it out for him quite blu...

Last week, the Blackbelt 3D printer launched on Kickstarter. What makes the Blackbelt 3D printer different than any other 3D printer on Kickstarter? This printer has an infinite build volume. It&#8…

I don't know why fidget spinners are only getting popular now. They've been selling like hotcakes on Tindie for a year now, and I've been seeing 3D printed versions around the Internet for almost as ...

Ships at sea are literally islands unto themselves. If what you need isn't on board, good luck getting it in the middle of the Pacific. As such, most ships are really well equipped with spare parts an...

The history of Commodore 8-bit computers ends with a fantastically powerful, revolutionary, and extraordinarily collectible device. The Commodore 65 was the chicken lip' last-ditch effort to squeeze ...

While it’s true that your parts bin might have a few parts harvested from outdated devices of recent vintage, there’s not much to glean anymore aside from wall warts. But the 3×48-…

There are so many nice hacks in [Joekutz]’s retro LED display project that it’s hard to know where to start. There’s his DIY LED display controlled by an Arduino UNO. To have some…