If there’s one category among those we see here at Hackaday that has something for everyone, it’s retrocomputing. Spanning ...

Although not very glamorous, wax motors are a fairly common type of linear actuator. They use the thermal response of waxes ...

It seems fair to say that semiconductor technology has been one of the most influential inventions in human history.

One of the easiest ways of improving security and privacy when using the Internet, and computers in general, is to use strong ...

Given the modern trend of interconnecting anything and everything, we have no doubt that somebody sells a blood pressure ...

Many of us will have followed the early history of electronic computing, from the urgent necessities of war, to universities, and then on into the wider world. Most of the firsts in that field are ...

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, ...

One of the interesting things about the slow-moving AI apocalypse we seem to be trapped in is watching the knock-on effects reverberate through communities and economies. We’ve seen how ...

If you’ve ever wondered about the planes flying above your head, you could always listen in to ADS-B transmissions to learn ...

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this ...

Automatic cat feeders are a dime a dozen, largely because this is an easy problem to solve. Dry cat food is easy for machines ...

What is hacking? Many, especially in the mainstream, view it through the lens of computer security. Others consider it synonymous with making or creating. Even for those of us immersed in the ...