Looking Back On 30 Years of Debian

The early history of Linux is a rather murky period to most, long before the Read More →

A Mainframe Computer for the Modern Age

The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but Read More →

2023 Hackaday Prize: A Reusable Plant Monitor

[Ovidiu] cares for their house plants, trying to dial in the perfect soil humidity and Read More →

Tiny Spheres Hiding in Your Display

Liquid crystal and Organic LED displays have revolutionized portable computing. They’re also made of glass. Read More →

Modeling A Guitar for Circuit Simulation

Guitar effects have come a long way from the jangly, unaltered sounds of the 1950s Read More →

Off-Grid Radio Also Repairable Off-Grid

Low-power radios, often referred to in the amateur radio community as QRP radios, have experienced Read More →

An Odd Home Computer From the 1980s

If you were around when the Altair 8800 was king, you might remember the name Read More →

Measuring Planck’s Constant (Again)

There are many well-known physical constants, but it always interests us when someone can approximately Read More →

2023 Cyberdeck Contest: A Toddler’s Cyberdeck

[Josh] has a child and what do children like more than stuffing random things into Read More →

China May Have a New Submarine Tracking Technology

Submarines have always been about stealth; that’s always been the whole point of putting them Read More →

The Dipole Antenna Isn’t as Simple as it Appears

Dipole antennas are easy, right? Just follow the formula, cut two pieces of wire, attach Read More →

A Nifty Tool For Counting Neopixels

Picture it. You’ve got a big roll of NeoPixels, but you have no idea how Read More →

Dielectric Mirror Shines Bright

We knew the mirrors in our house were not really very good mirrors, optically speaking. Read More →

2023 Cyberdeck Challenge: A Ham Radio Cyberdeck

Cyberdecks rock because their homebrewed nature lets them feature all kinds of nifty additional functionality. Read More →

Thin Client Wysens up to Become OpenWrt Router

For some of us, unused hardware lying around just calls to be used. It seems Read More →

A Speaker with Dancing Ferrofluid

A speaker project isn’t usually very different, but we couldn’t help but notice [Electronoob’s] latest Read More →

Update Your Chinese Radio Without The Pain

The new hotness in cheap radios this year has been the Quansheng UV-K5, a Chinese Read More →

Hackaday Links: August 13, 2023

Remember that time when the entire physics community dropped what it was doing to replicate Read More →

Portable 1990s POS Will Strain Your Back

[JR] over at [Tech Throwback] got ahold of an unusual piece of gear recently — Read More →

Making Things Square in Three Dimensions

Measure twice, cut once is excellent advice when building anything, from carpentry to metalworking. While Read More →

Liquid Metal Battery Goes Into Production

The news is rife with claims of the next great thing in clean energy generation, Read More →

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