It’s likely that Hackaday readers have among them a greater than average number of people who can name one special thing they ...

Zack], in addition to being a snappy dresser, has a thing for strange 3D printing filament. How strange? Well, in a recent ...

When you’re like [Wes] from Watch Wes Work fame, you don’t have a CNC machine hoarding issue, you just have a healthy interest in going down CNC machine repair rabbit holes. Such too ...

Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection ...

Whenever there’s a superlative involved, you know that degree of optimization has to leave something else on the table. In ...

If you take a look around you, chances are pretty good that within a few seconds, your eyes will fall on some kind of electrical connector. In this day and age, it’s as likely as not to be a ...

If you’ve ever combed boxes of old tech detritus in search of a nugget of pure gold, we know you’ll appreciate the excitement ...

When the iconic “Boing Ball” first debuted 40 years ago, it was a wonder to behold. There was nothing like it in the home compuing world upto that time, and it showed that ...

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 structures that look as interestingly organic as procedurally-generated ...

We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, or 000 in Australia.