As humans, we tend to consider our emotional states as a direct response to the experiences of our lives. Traffic may make us ...

Using a speaker as a microphone is a trick old enough to have become common knowledge, but how often do you see the hack ...

A while back [Clint Basinger] of Lazy Game Reviews fame purchased a rare 1980s Halikan laptop. When he received the parcel, ...

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 ...

Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean people aren’t out to get you. Do you think your soldering iron is after you? Well, [nanofix] asks (and answers): Is My Soldering Iron ...

Have you ever imagined what the Nintendo Switch would look like if Nintendo had produced it in the mid-1990s? [Joel Creates] ...

One of the fun things about writing for Hackaday is that it takes you to the places where our community hang out. I was in a ...

Bob] calls his custom 16-bit computer “Bob’s Unnecessary Retro Processor” or BURP for short. While we suppose it is ...

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

With batteries being such an integral part of smartphones, it’s little wonder that extending the period between charging and battery replacement has led to many theories and outright myths ...

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 ...