It's time to get out and have some fun with other Hackaday people in your area and we have the perfect opportunity. Be part of Hackaday World Create Day on Saturday, April 23rd. This is all about mee...

I’ve had a few conversations over the years with people about the future of 3D printing. One of the topics that arises frequently is the slicer, the software that turns a 3D model into paths for a …

Revolv, the bright red smart home hub famous for its abundance of radio modules, has finally been declared dead by its founders. After a series of acquisitions, Google’s parent company Alphab…

It's just a little past Halloween, but Adafruit's talking dog collar, modeled after the movie Up, is still a nice fusion between crafting and hacking.

One reason that Adafruit is so popular is tha...

[glitch] had a cheap EPROM eraser with very few features. Actually, that might be giving it too much credit: it's barely more than a UV light that turns on when it's plugged in and turns off when it'...

Over at [Truthlabs], a 30 year old pinball machine was diagnosed with a major flaw in its game design: It could only entertain one person at a time. [Dan] and his colleagues set out to change this, t...

The more tools you have the better. Unfortunately, not everyone has the space, or the money for full-size equipment. Looking to expand his maker capabilities, [Bruno] had the clever idea to turn a …

The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried. The orbiters can now be found in their permanent homes in the Air and Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center, and the California Science Center. The lau…

Reading this article in the San Francisco Chronicle sounds very familiar if you've owned a hand-built robot of any kind. "Bistrobot" is a pretty sweet sandwich-making robot. It toasts bread on the fly...

It’s not unusual for new technologies to preserve vestiges of those that preceded them. If an industry has an inertia of doing things in a particular way then it makes commercial sense for an…

Over the last few years, news that police, military, and intelligence organizations use portable cellular phone surveillance devices – colloquially known as the ‘Stingray’ –…

Fictiv runs a 3D printing shop. They have a nice interface and an easy to understand pricing scheme. As community service, or just for fun, they decided to tear-down two robot vacuums and critique …

What's more seductive than a claw machine? After all, how hard can it be to snag that $2 teddy bear that is practically poking out of the pile of merchandise. But after 20 quarters, you realize you've...

With a welder and a bunch of scrap, you can build just about anything that moves. Want a dune buggy? That’s just some tube and a pipe bender. Need a water pump? You might need a grinder. A sm…

We have to admit, we expected to be bored through [The 8-Bit Guy]'s presentation, only to stay riveted through his comparison of early graphic card technology.

Some presentations get a bit technic...

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The time has arrived, the greatest hardware conference on earth has landed in Belgrade, Serbia. The lineup of speakers is incredible and you can bask in every minute of ...

Imagine if the Snap-on tool truck wasn't filled with hand tools. Imagine if that Snap-on truck was a mobile electronics surplus shop. That's the idea behind the Travelling Hacker Box. It's a box, ship...

Cheap character LCD displays are more versatile than we give them credit for. Most of the cheapies have a 5x8 character display, which looks blocky but legible when you have an appropriate font. Where...

Since the Hackaday Store Spring sale launched, hundreds of items have been flying out the door (sadly only metaphorically, not by drone delivery), and the warehouse robot uprising has been somewhat…

The piezoelectric effect is simple in its rules: Apply mechanical stress to a material and you generate an electric charge. The inverse is also true: Apply a voltage to a material, and it changes sha...