If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. We’d bet good money most of ...

The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of ...

Love it or hate it, Vim, the vi-compatible minimalist editor, is a common denominator between a huge array of operating ...

Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The generator uses sodium and water, which, if you remember your old ...

How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inverse square law, or Maxwell’s equations? This is one of those questions that always ...

Unless it’s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isn’t exactly the sort of thing ...

The events of the last few years have caused many in Europe to re-evaluate their reliance on large offshore technology ...

Lithium batteries have become the backbone of many modern devices ranging from toothbrushes to semi trucks, so what are we ...

Optical media may be dead for video games on the big corporate consoles, but not in [Emmet]’s heart– or on his DIY game ...

The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually ...

What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This ...

The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a few decades ago. And, ...