Odds are, you’ve taken pills before; it’s a statistical certainty that some of you reading this took several this morning.

On Friday, Reuters reported that Amazon is going to try to get into the smartphone game…again. The Fire Phone was perhaps ...

Although the RTL-SDR is cheap, accessible, and capable enough for many projects, it does have some important limitations. In ...

Thermal energy storage is pretty great, as phase-change energy storage is very consistent with its energy output over time, ...

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...

A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even ...

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 ...

Putting a complete WiFi subsystems on a single-board computer is no mean feat, and on as compact a board as the Zero W, it’s quite an achievement. The antenna is the tricky part, since there’s only so ...

It was an easy decision to run a Cyberdeck Challenge in 2023 — after all, it was far and away one of our most popular contests from last year. But what was much harder was sorting out the incredible ...

[Dustyn Roberts] takes us through the process of designing gears for a specific application. Using Inkscape and Ponoko.com [Dustyn] takes us from equation to physical gear. While there is a plugin for ...

Looking up at the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise will reveal a fairly staggering amount of satellites orbiting overhead, from tiny cubesats to the International Space Station. Of course ...

There are a few possible ways to do a teardown of new electronics like the Apple AirTag 2 tracker, with [electronupdate] opting to go down to the silicon level, with die shots of the major ICs in a ...