A perk of writing for Hackaday comes in the vast breadth of experience represented by our fellow writers. Through our ...

When things started getting iffy over at Twitter, Mastodon rose as a popular alternative to the traditional microblogging ...

According to [Asianometry], no one believed in the scanning electron microscope. No one, that is, except [Charles Oatley].The ...

Creating music in 2024 is made easier by ready access to a host of effects in software that were once the preserve only of ...

Upgrading the memory in a computer is usually a straightforward case of swapping out a few DIMMs or SODIMMs, with the most complex task being to identify the correct type of memory from the many ...

Now, we know what some of you are going to say — “Oh man, not another programmatic CAD tool, what’s wrong with OpenSCAD?” — and you may be right, but maybe hold on a bit and take a look ...

The recent Supercon 6 badge, if you haven’t seen it, was an old-fashioned type computer with a blinky light front panel. It was reminiscent of an Altair 8800, a PDP-11, or DG Nova. However, even ...

AI comments are better than nothing…probably. While it can write some programs on its own, in some cases quite capably, for specialized or complex tasks it might not be quite up to the challenge ...

When we talk about emissions these days, we typically talk about cutting them back for the good of the environment. However, the climate system is a complex beast, and one we’re still learning ...

As many people have pointed out, what matters with USB-C isn’t just the standard, it’s the implementations. After all, it’s the implementations that we actually have to deal with, and it’s ...

As you dive deeper into the world of electronics, a good oscilloscope quickly is an indispensable tool. However, for many use cases where you’re debugging low voltage, low speed circuits, that ...

The goal is to turn the Moon into a scientific outpost, and that requires a payload delivery infrastructure far more capable than the Apollo Lunar Module (LM). NASA asked their commercial partners ...