Although premature optimization can be a really bad thing, late optimization is sometimes unavoidable because we simply ...

Did you know emojis can be executables? Well, they are if you treat them like Intel 8088 or 8086 machine code, anyway.

Around these parts, finger joints (or box joints) are usually the product of laser cutting. [bluesyann] shows us a method of ...

A quick search through AliExpress will find PCBs that take HDMI or VGA and translate them to DSI lanes for TFT panels, and ...

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, ...

Folding wings have a long history in aviation. Particularly in the military world, where the ability to fit more fighting ...

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this ...

If there’s one category among those we see here at Hackaday that has something for everyone, it’s retrocomputing. Spanning ...

Although not very glamorous, wax motors are a fairly common type of linear actuator. They use the thermal response of waxes ...

Flash is obsolete and the IBM 5150 is obsolete. Therefore, by the transitive property of algebra, you should be able to run ...

The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out how to set it up as a ...

The Amazon Echo Dot is one of Amazon’s so-called ‘smart speaker’ offerings that tie into their larger Alexa-fueled ecosystem, ...