It’s a bit of a truism that bigger sensors lead to better pictures when it comes to photography. Of course everyone who isn’t ...

The humble 555 timer has its origins back in the early 1970s as the NE555, a bipolar integrated circuit. Over the years it ...

There’s another ransomware story this week, but this one comes with a special twist. If you’ve followed this column for long, ...

Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to ...

Have you ever seen photos of retro movie sets where the cameras seem to be bedazzled with lenses? Of course you can only film ...

We get it, CAD software can be daunting to learn. Somehow [Boaztheostrich] found it so daunting he procrastinated his way ...

For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so ...

Hackaday Editors Tom Nardi and Al Williams spent the weekend at Supercon and had to catch up on all the great hacks. Listen in as they talk about their favorites. Plus, stick around to the end to ...

If you had an array of high power addressable LEDs, how would you project them onto a wall? Perhaps you’d use a Fresnel lens, or maybe an individual lens on the top of each. [Joo] faced this ...

Plastic recycling is something that many of us strive to accomplish, but we often get caught up in the many hurdles along the way. [Brothers Make] are experienced in the world of plastic recycling ...

When we talk about HDTV, we’re typically talking about any one of a number of standards from when television made the ...

The older Raspberry Pi boards have had a long life, serving faithfully since 2012. Frankly, their continued support is a ...