It’s fair to say that the average Hackaday reader enjoys putting together custom electronics. Some of those builds will be ...

Since e-ink first hit the market a couple decades back, there’s always murmurs of “that’d be great as a second monitor”— but ...

Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for that is called ...

The 1993 Pioneer LaserActive certainly ranks high on the list of obscure video games. It was an odd duck; it used both a ...

Rex Malik] didn’t need an alarm clock. That’s because he had one of two “home computer terminals” next to his bed and, as you can see in the video below, it made quite a ...

There’s a saying in mine country, the kind that sometimes shows up on bumper stickers: “If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined.” Before mining can ever start, though, there has to be ore in the ...

There’s something uniquely satisfying about a pen plotter. Though less speedy or precise than a modern printer, watching a pen glide across the page, mimicking human drawing, is mesmerizing. This ...

Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people ...

A look underneath the water’s surface can be fun and informative! However, making a device to go under the surface poses ...

Ultralight aviation provides an excellent pathway for those who want to fly, but don’t want to get licensed. These quite often cheap and cheerful DIY aircraft often hide some excellent ...

The rotary evaporator (rotovap) rarely appears outside of well-provisioned chemistry labs. That means that despite being a ...

Developing Android applications seems like it should be fairly straightforward if you believe the glossy marketing by Google ...