Not every impulsive purchase on eBay leads to possession of a wooden Dalek, but when a friend did exactly that, [Tony Goacher ...

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with ...

When you think of air conditioners, you tend to think of rather bulky units, with the window-mounted appliances probably ...

Nicholas Murray]’s Composite Test Pattern Generator is a beautifully-made, palm-sized tool that uses an ESP32-based ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) forms the bridge between the analog world of paper and the world of machines. The ...

It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most ...

Names and labels are difficult. Take this “3D Printed” water-cooling loop by [Visual Thinker] on YouTube. It undeniably uses ...

There are all kinds of fun, glowing PC cases on the market these days. However, if you want something that focuses on serviceability over flash while still looking stylish, you might like the ...

This week the Hackaday Podcast is on vacation, but we’d like to wish you all happy holidays and a great 2026.  Thanks for tuning in!  We’ll be back next week. This wasn’t a real ...

Pagers were once a great way to get a message to someone out in public; they just had to be cool enough to have one. These ...

Would you feel confident in buying US-made LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries? While the answer here is generally expected to be ‘yes’, ...

Perhaps the most beautiful aspect of mathematics is that it applies to literally everything, even things that do not exist in ...