[David Brown]’s entry for The Hackaday Prize is a design for a tool that normally exists only as an expensive piece of industrial equipment; out of the reach of normal experimenters, in other…

Anyone who’s made a PCB has encountered the conundrum of having to pay for space that you don’t use… for instance, designing a round PCB and seeing the corners go to waste. The solution? Smaller bo…

Camping and road trips are a heck of a lot of fun, despite lacking many of the creature comforts that come from a house and its amenities. We’re all for fire-cooked meals, but sometimes, you …

Getting paid to do what you enjoy is a special treat. A machinist and fabricator by trade -- hobbyist hacker by design -- [spdltd] was commissioned to build a mechanical art installation with a steamp...

Space is a mess, and the sad truth is, we made it that way. Most satellites that have been lofted into Earth orbit didn't have a plan for retiring them, and those dead hulks, along with the various bi...

We've loved [Daito Manabe]'s work for a while now. Don't know [Daito]? Read this recent interview with him and catch up. Is he a hacker's artist, or an artist's hacker?

My personal favorite hack of...

Whenever there's a new Windows virus out there wreaking global havoc, the Linux types get smug. "That'll never happen in our open operating system," they say. "There are many eyes looking over the sou...

As useful as computers are, most of them have all the design charm of a rubber doorstop. Oh, for the heady early days of computing, when vacuum tubes ruled, hardware was assembled by hand, and engi…

Every Friday, the Hackaday.io community gathers 'round the fireplace and discusses the challenges facing the world. This is the Hack Chat, and in previous incarnations, we've talked about custom silic...

In bringing suitable illustrations to our articles, we Hackaday scribes use a variety of sources that offer images featuring permissive licences. Among the usual free image libraries there is one part...

In the last couple of decades we have become used to the browser taking over so many of the desktop functions for which we used to rely on stand-alone software. Email clients, calendars, office sui…

The Internet of Things will kill us all and is the worst idea anyone has ever had. However, just because something could be labeled an 'Internet of Things thing' doesn't mean it's a bad idea. The Hack...

There are probably times in every Hackaday reader’s life at which you see something and realise that the technology behind it is something you have always taken for granted but have never con…

Before everyone learned programming on Stack Exchange, things were much different. Computer magazines had BASIC programs in them, which readers would type out, line by line, and hit RUN. In theory,…

A good robot is always welcome around here at Hackaday, and Hackaday.io user [igorfonseca83]’browser-controlled ‘bot s is no exception. Felines beware. [igorfonseca83] — building …

Pick a lock, plug in a WiFi-enabled Raspberry Pi and that's nearly all there is to it.

There's more than that of course, but the wind farms that [Jason Staggs] and his fellow researchers at the Uni...

A few years ago, there was a stir about a new fundamental component called a memristor. That wasn’t the first time a new component type was theorized though. In 1948 [Bernard Tellegen] postul…

The Game Boy Camera is a 128x112 pixel sensor from 1998 that was probably the first digital camera in many, many homes. There's not much you can do with it now, besides replicate old Neil Young album ...

As often happens while engaged in a mundane task, my mind wandered while I was mowing my small suburban plot of green this weekend. "Why, in 2017, am I still mowing the lawn?" In a lot of ways we're l...

Walkers like the Strandbeest are favorites due in part to their smooth design and fluid motion, but [Leandro] is going a slightly different way with Octo, an octopodal platform for exploring rough te...