What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?” We have to admit, we know what a thermin is, but that’s as far as we got. You’ve ...

It could happen to anyone of us: suddenly you got this inkling of an idea for a product that you think might just be pretty ...

Anyone who has done an electronic engineering qualification will at some point have had to get to grips with transmission ...

One can only imagine the wonders held within the crypto labs of organizations like the CIA or NSA. Therein must be machines ...

Who among us hasn’t at some point thought of building a little vehicle, and better still, a little off-road vehicle for a few ...

Researchers demonstrate sustainable 3D printing by using poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) solutions (PNIPAM), which speedily and ...

Few consumer-grade PCs are what you’d categorize as built to last. Most office-grade machines are as likely as not to give up ...

Initially only seeing brief popular use as the filament in incandescent lighting, carbon fibers (CF) experienced a resurgence during the 20th century as part of composite materials that are ...

Raspberry Pi’s first foray into the world of microcontrollers, the RP2040, was a very interesting chip. Its standout features were the programmable input/output units (PIOs) which enabled all ...

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams reflect on the fact that, as humans, we have–at most–two eyes and no warp drives. While hacking might not be the world’s most dangerous hobby, you do ...

How hard could it to be to build a two-stroke internal combustion engine (ICE) from scratch? This is a challenge that [Camden Bowen] gladly set for himself, while foregoing such obvious wastes of ...

You may have heard some scary news about RISC-V CPUs. There’s good news, and bad news, and the whole thing is a bit of a cautionary tale. GhostWrite is a devastating vulnerability in a pair ...