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

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 ...

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

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 ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

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 ...

We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred ...

We’re covering two weeks of news today, which is handy, because the week between Christmas and New Years is always a bit slow ...

When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became ...

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

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