Sometimes, you build a thing because you need a thing. Sometimes, you do it just to see if you can. This project is in category two: [polymatt] didn’t need to create a floppy disk from ...

Running out of filament mid-print is a surefire way to ruin your parts and waste a lot of time. [LayerLab] was sick of having this problem, and so sought to find a proper solution. Unfortunately, ...

On an old fashioned bench a signal generator was once an indispensable instrument, but has now largely been supplanted by the ...

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

There was a time when making a cloud chamber with dry ice and alcohol was one of those ‘rite of passage’ type science projects every nerdy child did. That time may or may not be ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...

Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the ...

Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself ...

The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers ...

Australia is known for great beaches, top-tier coffee, and a laidback approach to life that really doesn’t square with all ...