If you are doing a senior design project in engineering school, it takes some guts to make a robotic duplicate of the school's president. He or she might be flattered, or completely offended. Us? We l...

[Derryn Harvie] from the MakeHackVoid maker space hacked a $10 IR Thermometer and made it talk USB. Sounds easy? Read on. He opened it up in the hope of finding, and tapping into, a serial bus. But…

Have you ever had to write a bit of code to interpret a non-linear analog reading as picked up by an ADC? When all you have to work with for your transfer function is a graph in a semiconductor datash...

[Stefan] works in a place where knowing the exact state of the foreign-exchange market is important to the money making schemes of the operation. Checking an app or a website was too slow and broke h...

Sometimes a project doesn't have to be technically amazing to win over our hearts. [Malte]'s ESP8266-based weather station is so cute, and so nicely executed, that it's easily worth a look. It could t...

We’ve heard reports that internet connectivity in Australia can be an iffy proposition, and [deandob] seems to back that up. At the limit of a decent DSL connection and on the fringe of LTE, …

Can you build a HF SSB radio transciever in one weekend, while on the road, at parts from a swap meet? I can, but apparently not without setting something on fire. Of course the swap meet I’m…

If you want to learn how to defeat computer security, nothing beats hands-on experience. Of course, if you get your hands on someone's system without their permission, you may end up having a very sho...

For the third year in a row, we're running the greatest hardware challenge on the planet. It's the Hackaday Prize, a contest to build something that matters. We're giving away $300,000 to people who ...

At Hackaday, sometimes we nerd out a bit too hard over comic book movies. With Captain America: Civil War in theaters, I knew I had to do a project dedicated to the movie -- so I made a ridiculously o...

There were a lot of very technical talks at Hackaday Belgrade. That's no surprise, this is Hackaday after all. But every once in a while it's good to lift our heads up from the bench, blow away some o...

[MechEngineerMike]'s bike boost is just a pleasure to look at, and, we're certain, a relief to use. While it's not going to rocket you down the street, it will certainly take some of the pain away. (...

This robot may have the fastest hand we’ve ever seen. It’s only a hand at the moment, but it’s certainly good with it. The hand comes from a research project out of the University…

The Hackaday Crew will be descending on San Mateo next weekend for Bay Area Maker Faire. Will you be there? Gerrit and I will be looking in every booth and byway for amazing hacks, new hardware, and a...

A common sight in the days before cheap PCs conquered the world was the dumb terminal. A keyboard and a monitor with a serial port on the back that was usually hooked up to a minicomputer or even a…

Robot arms are cool, and to judge from the SCARA arms and old Heathkit robots tucked away in a cupboard of every computer science department in every university in the world, they're still remarkably ...

On the Starship Enterprise, an engineer can simply tell the computer what he'd like it to do, and it will do the design work. Moments later, the replicator pops out the needed part (we assume to atomi...

If binary clocks have you confused by all the math required to figure out what time it is, we have the solution for you: a unary clock. After all, what's simpler than summing up powers of two? Powers ...

Decorating graduation caps is often frowned upon by the administration but [Dan Barkus] is challenging his school authorities to keep from smiling when they see what he has in store. His build will…

Looking for a better way to store your tools during transportation? While we certainly wouldn't recommend trying to check this thing as a carry-on (oh and prepare for it to be searched even in checked...