PCBs are traditionally designed with traces laid out to support a circuit full of electronic components. However, they’ve ...

Typically, when we think of touch screens, we think of LCDs or OLEDs with a resistive or capacitive sensing layer laid over the top. However, a team from the University of Chicago has developed an ...

Engineering design makes all kinds of tradeoffs. Power trades off with torque, strength trades off with weight, and cost can ...

We depend on the Hackaday community to help us find all the fresh hacks the Internet has to offer. Whenever you see something you think should be discussed on Hackaday we want to hear from you. This ...

CDMA2000 was one of the protocols defined for 3G networks and is now years out of date and being phased out worldwide. Nevertheless, there are still vast numbers of phones that will happily connect to ...

LEGO bricks might look simplistic, but did you know there’s an actual science behind their sizes? Enter LDUs — LEGO Draw Units — the minuscule measurement standard that allows those tiny interlocking ...

[TheHyperFix] had a problem. He’d spied a brilliant camera slider, but didn’t want to lay out big money to acquire it. The natural solution? Build one! Only, life is seldom so straightforward. The ...

Following on the heels of a fortunately not real DDoS botnet composed of electric toothbrushes, [Aaron Christophel] got his hands on a sort-of-electric toothbrush which could totally be exploited for ...

Most of us do our writing on computers these days, but the modern computing environment does present a lot of distractions. That’s let to the concept of the writer deck, a simplified device intended ...

[SeanHodgins] has a project in mind where he needs to sample over 500 analog sensors. To get ready, he made a breakout board for 32-channel analog multiplexer device he wants to use. He put the ...

In the driving simulator community, setups can quickly grow ever more complicated and expensive, all in the quest for fidelity. For [CNCDan], rather than buy pedals off the shelf, he opted to build ...

CDMA2000 was one of the protocols defined for 3G networks and is now years out of date and being phased out worldwide. Nevertheless, there are still vast numbers of phones that will happily connect to ...