D printing is wonderful, but sometimes you just don’t want to look at a plastic peice. Beethoven’s bust wouldn’t look quite ...

Few things rival the usability and speed of a full-sized keyboard for text input. For decades, though, keyboards were mostly ...

We miss the slide rule. It isn’t so much that we liked getting an inexact answer using a physical moving object. But to ...

What happens when a traditional board game company decides to break into electronic gaming? Well, if it were a UK gaming ...

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams took a break to talk about their favorite hacks last week. You can drop in to hear about articulated mirrors, triacs, and even continuous ...

After having been sent a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) based clock for a review, [Anthony Francis-Jones] took the opportunity to explain how these types of displays work. Although VFDs are ...

Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when ...

It’s possible to improve your 3D prints in all kinds of ways. You can tune your printer’s motion, buy better filament, or tinker endlessly with any number of slicer settings. Or, as ...

Sleep apnea is a debilitating disease that many sufferers don’t even realize they have. Those afflicted with the condition ...

As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes repurposing it somewhat straightforward as long as what you want is another ...

Certain old computers — most frequently those using the RCA 1802 — were fond of using an early form of byte-code interpreter for programs, especially games. The interpreter, CHIP-8, was very simple to ...

One of the good things about simulating circuits is that you can easily change component values trivially. In the real world, ...