Perhaps the biggest hurdle to starting a home blacksmithing operating is the forge. There’s really no way around having a forge; somehow the metal has to get hot enough to work. Although we ...

The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance HF antenna into a small space. It takes the form of a large single-turn coil made into ...

The Micro:bit is a fun microcontroller development platform, designed specifically for educational use. Out of the box, it’s ...

For the Component Abuse Challenge, we asked you to do the wrong thing with electrical parts, but nonetheless come out with the right result. It’s probably the most Hackaday challenge we have run ...

TinkerCAD had its first release all the way back in 2011 and it has come a long way since then. The latest release has introduced a raft of new, interesting features, and [HL ModTech] has been ...

A while back [Clint Basinger] of Lazy Game Reviews fame purchased a rare 1980s Halikan laptop. When he received the parcel, ...

In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are ...

If you’ve ever combed boxes of old tech detritus in search of a nugget of pure gold, we know you’ll appreciate the excitement ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and ...

Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes snapped up by ...

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few ...

There is a point where taking technology for granted hides some of the incredible capabilities of seemingly simple devices.