Over the years, dedicated gamers have created incredible recreations of real (and not so real) locations and structures ...

We all take Ethernet and its ubiquitous RJ-45 connector for granted these days. But Ethernet didn’t start with twisted pair cable. [Mark] and [Ben] at The Serial Port YouTube channel are ...

A lot of the projects we feature here on Hackaday engender the classic “build versus buy” argument. We’ve always been puzzled ...

One of the blockbuster talks at last year’s Chaos Communications Congress covered how a group of hackers discovered code that ...

If you’re into building large projects, you’ll eventually find yourself looking at wire rope. Multistrand steel wire used as antenna guy wires, bridge supports, and plenty of other ...

Let’s think of the last time you sent data without wires. We’re not talking WiFi here, but plain optical signals. Free-space ...

The early 1990s were an interesting time in the PC world, mainly because PCs were entering the zeitgeist for the first time.

Maker’s Fun Duck] has a recent video review of a cheap thermal camera from a company called Kaiweets, which you can see below. It checked all of his boxes: It was standalone, handheld, ...

This account of running DOOM on a PCB business card isn’t really about serving the “Will it DOOM?” meme of getting the classic game to run on improbable hardware. Rather, this ...

Being able to 3D print FDM objects in more than one color is a feature that is rapidly rising in popularity, assisted by various multi-filament systems that allow the printer to swap between ...

At the 38th Chaos Communications Congress, [Frostie314159] and [Jasper Devreker] gave us a nice update on their project to ...

Who would’ve thought a cheap AliExpress emergency light could be packed with such crafty design choices? Found for about $5, this unit uses simple components yet achieves surprisingly ...