When you’re driving your car, you’re probably regularly looking at the speedometer to make sure you comply with the local speed limits. The method by which it works is simple enough: ...

In the world of scientific publishing there are many reasons why a paper can be retracted, but generally there is an obvious ...

Some of us have felt somewhat nervous about the collapse of DRAM and NAND Flash memory supply in the consumer market, while others seem to have fully embraced it. Someone like [polymatt] for example, ...

If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super ...

It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he ...

The recently released Valve Steam Machine is that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply. This fact ...

Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting Radio 4 on their 198 ...

RC planes are a lot of fun, and the bigger the better! [Ramy RC] has built the world’s biggest RC A380. At 29 ft (8.83 m) ...

Split-flap displays are a great, low-power way to display text to a wide audience. Compared to other display technologies ...

Swift is a relatively modern program language, appearing in 2014 as a replacement for Objective-C. Since then, it’s become a ...

In this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off by taking a trip down the Raspberry Pi memory lane and then tackle a fresh pile of listener mail. The discussion moves on ...