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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes snapped up by retrocomputing enthusiasts in search of interesting code. Vintage ...