You can create music with Tesla coils if you know how to modulate their 'break rate' with MIDI data and a control unit. Case in point.

We’ve seen a lot of cubic LED creations recently, but this one takes it a bit further. The BouLED is a work-in-progress icosahedric LED display, a globe-like sphere made of 20 flat triangular…

How the Civil War changed the frontier.

Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of…

I have a consulting engagement at a big Windows Enterprise shop. I had to re-familiarize myself with the current Microsoft compute/cloud stack. I’ve been pleasantly surprised. The offerings are compelling.

When [PeterSripol] was a kid, he made a simple sailboat from a scrap piece of 2×4 and some napkin sails. He’s not 8 years old anymore, but he decided he wanted to make another 2X4 sailbo…

Coding is fun. Really fun. Having played other actors in the startup play (manager, investor, twitter user, coffee consumer, etc) I can tell you that coding is the best flow you’ll get. It’s uniquely great.  So it isn’t surprising to learn that technical…

painting series by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

An undergraduate archaeologist is trying to make sure the prewar city isn't forgotten.

How two trailblazing aviators nearly ruined American aviation

Many Hackaday readers have an interest in older technologies, and from antique motorcycles to tube radios to retrocomputers, you own, conserve and restore them. Sometimes you do so using new parts …

Theoretical physicists who say the multiverse exists set a dangerous precedent: science based on zero empirical evidence