Sure I could buy this… but can I make it myself?’ And that’s where [Ben] decided he could, and got to work. On a ...

Smartphones boggle my mind a whole lot – they’re pocket computers, with heaps of power to spare, and yet they feel like the ...

If you used the internet at home a couple of decades or more ago, you’ll know the characteristic sound of a modem  connecting ...

As you may have guessed given our name, we do love hacks around here, and this one is a great example of making some common, everyday things work in uncommon ways. [Nathan] sent in his hack to ...

When you think of neon, you might think of neon signs or the tenth element, a noble gas. But there was a time when neon bulbs like the venerable NE-2 were the 555 of their day, with a seemingly ...

On an old fashioned bench a signal generator was once an indispensable instrument, but has now largely been supplanted by the ...

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the ...

These days, if you want a reverb effect, you just dial up whatever software plugin most appeals to you and turn the dials to taste. However, [Something Physical] specialises in… physical ...

You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet ...

Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...