The Hackaday 2025 Component Abuse Challenge is all about abusing electronic components in the service of making them do ...

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few ...

In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are ...

History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to ...

Miroslav Hancar] wasn’t satisfied with abusing just a single component for our Component Abuse Challenge. He decided to abuse ...

Anything with a laser has undeniable hacker appeal, even if the laser’s task is as pedestrian as sending data over a fiber ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and ...

Full disclosure. If you want a lathe capable of turning metal stock, you probably should just buy one. But what fun is that? You can do like [kachurovskiy] and build one with your 3D printer. If ...

Last weekend was Supercon, and it was, in a word super. So many people sharing so much enthusiasm and hackery, and so many ...

The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the ...

Over on Hackaday.IO our hacker [bornach] has his entry into the Component Abuse Challenge: Inductors are Wireless Power ...

There is a point where taking technology for granted hides some of the incredible capabilities of seemingly simple devices.