One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you never quite ...

We cover so many projects here at Hackaday that lead the author down a rabbit hole of technological investigation that distracts us from the task of bringing them to you. Such a project is ...

Between the speed and reliability of modern desktop 3D printers and the abundance of powerful single-board computers, there’s never been a better time to build a personal computing device ...

If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was ...

Even with Amazon’s Echo Show devices running Linux in the form of the Android-derived FireOS, using them for non-Amazon ...

V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what’s the new frontier? Watch to find out ...

You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is ...

Radar, this project from [Mateusz Juszczyk] isn’t actually using radar. But thanks to the round LCD this desktop gadget does ...

There are plenty of radios you can buy that pick up MW and SW bands if that’s what you’re into. Or, you can follow [mircemk]’s example, and whip one up yourself instead. The build employs an ESP32 as ...

Flight sims are wonderful to play around with to get immersed in the position of a pilot. Racing sims can give you a thrill ...

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image their subjects. Instead, they physically detect the subject’s surface with a ...

“That’ll buff out” is very often true when it comes to disks. well cared for. If not well cared for, well, it’s only relatively durable, and we’ve probably all picked up a second-hand disk that’s too ...