You heard right. There's a team of scientists in Europe who are arranging the world's first Cyborg Olympics, called the Cybathlon. Hosted in Zurich this October, it aims to help gauge the performanc...

Ah laundry day. The washing machine, the dryer, the ironing, and the folding. No one is a fan of doing laundry, but we (I hope) are all fans of having clean clothing. Hackers, makers, and engineers ar...

A good multimeter (or a few of them) is an essential part of anyone’s electronics workbench. The only thing more useful than a multimeter is a logging multimeter that can take recordings over…

Alongside printers from all walks of manufacturing, one can naturally expect to find people selling different kinds of filament at a 3D printing festival. One of these purveyors of plastic was Prot...

[Brody Berson] is at it again, but this time he's hacked the services floating in the aether around him to give him beer on demand. Finally the future we've been waiting for.

This hack is not as ha...

It was high-tech encryption for an important period of time in the mid-1940s, so perhaps you can forgive us our obsession with the Enigma machine. But did you know that you can make your very own E…

Faced with a project requiring a lot of sanding, [George] had two options. Suck it up and buy a belt sander -- or re-purpose a tool he already had to do the same job. He chose the latter, and turned a...

Wherever you stand on the topics of road safety and vehicle speed limits it’s probably fair to say that speed cameras are not a universally popular sight on our roads. If you want a heated ar…

In any motorsport, the more you know about how the engine is performing, the better a driver is likely to do in a race. That holds for bicycles, too, where the driver just happens to also be the en…

This is a hacking and gaming tour de force! [Seth Bling] executed a code injection hack in Super Mario World (SMW) that not only glitches the game, but re-programs it to play a stripped-down versio…

An exciting aspect of the trend in single board computers towards ever faster processors has been the clever use of their digital I/O with DSP software to synthesize complex signals in the analogue…

April Fool's Day was last Friday, and the Internet was garbage for a day. Our April Fool's prank was amazing, and in a single day garnered more views than the Raspberry Pi 3 launch announcement from a...

Walk on almost any beach or look on the side of most roads and you’ll see the bottles, bags, and cast-off scraps of a polymeric alphabet soup – HDPE, PET, ABS, PP, PS. Municipal recycli…

[Connor Krukosky] wanted to buy another computer. Even though he is only 18, he had his first computer at 18 months old. He’s had plenty since then and his interest in computers led him to pu…

A few days ago you might have seen images floating around the net of the next Nintendo console controller, The Nintendo NX. There were so many pictures, it just had to be real!

Wrong. It was just ...

[REDNIC79] lives somewhere in Canada where key terrain features include mud and snow. Half pontoon boat, half auger, screw-propelled vehicles excel in this kind of terrain as long as you're okay with ...

As the light of the 19th century was peeking over the horizon, a young physicist by the name of Max Planck was taking to heart some career advise he had received while he attended Munich University in...

Think you made a cool tree-house for your kids? Sorry to burst your bubble, but we don't think anything can top this full-size 1:1 replica of a Star Wars AT-ST -- complete with sound effects and movin...

We have an amazing line-up of talks for Hackaday | Belgrade, Saturday April 9, in Belgrade, Serbia. The talks have been sold out for weeks. You can still get a ticket to the night's concerts if you'r...

In a lifetime of working with electronics we see a lot of technologies arrive, become mighty, then disappear as though they had never been. The germanium transistor for instance, thermionic valves …