You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren’t retro enough, ...

Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those colorful ...

Andy Huot] has a fantastic-looking infinity mirror digital clock that really raises the bar. It uses high quality components, ...

Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning. Now that it’s the 21st century, we’ve gotten used to being able to ...

Apple hardware has always been proprietary, sometimes to an extreme. But that’s not to say that it’s impossible to make ...

The 2026 Hackaday Superconference is just around the corner in November. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been having an annual gathering for so long, but this is number ten. Every year, it’s a ...

Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more ...

Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying — especially if it is challenging. His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes. Ok, that didn’t work out, but ...

It’s said that a teenager given a rotary telephone in 2026 would be mystified by its operation, yet there are enough surviving instruments for them to be an attractive target for a project. But just ...

As easy as the Sun is to observe, it’s simultaneously very hard to study due to how extreme the conditions are, even on the surface of a rather unassuming star. One of these study topics is the ...

The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has since been developed to ...