Have you ever wondered what goes into making it possible to use the restroom at 30,000 feet (10,000 m)? [Jason Torchinsky] at ...

Since the dawn of computers, we’ve tried different ways to store data. These days, you grab data over the network, but you ...

On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure ...

It’s likely that Hackaday readers have among them a greater than average number of people who can name one special thing they ...

Zack], in addition to being a snappy dresser, has a thing for strange 3D printing filament. How strange? Well, in a recent ...

Once upon a time, owning a calculator watch was the epitome of cool. Well, for a very specific subset of the population with ...

The Hackaday 2025 Component Abuse Challenge is all about abusing electronic components in the service of making them do ...

When you’re like [Wes] from Watch Wes Work fame, you don’t have a CNC machine hoarding issue, you just have a healthy interest in going down CNC machine repair rabbit holes. Such too ...

If you’ve ever used an NE602 or similar IC to build a radio, you might have noticed that the datasheet has a “gilbert cell” mixer. What is that? [Electronics for the Inquisitive ...

If you take a look around you, chances are pretty good that within a few seconds, your eyes will fall on some kind of electrical connector. In this day and age, it’s as likely as not to be a ...

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 of discovering, in a dusty University of Utah storeroom, a tape labelled ...

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few structures that look as interestingly organic as procedurally-generated ...