For as versatile and inexpensive as switch-mode power supplies are at all kinds of different tasks, they’re not always the ...

In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you ...

It’s about time! Or maybe it’s about time’s reciprocal: frequency. Whichever way you see it, Hackaday is pleased to announce, ...

A lot of people complain that driving across the United States is boring. Having done the coast-to-coast trip seven times now ...

Sometimes you see an FDM filament pop up that makes you do a triple-take because it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. This ...

A favourite thing for the developers behind a complex software project is to embed an Easter egg: something unexpected that ...

As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about gravity good enough to let us walk around, play baseball, and land ...

Procedural generation is a big part of game design these days. Usually you generate your map, and [Fractal Philosophy] has ...

Here’s a fun build. Over on their YouTube channel our hacker [Atasoy] shows us how to make a custom floral keyboard keycap using resin. We begin by using an existing keycap as a pattern to make a mold ...

Claywoven] mostly prints with ceramics, although he does produce plastic inserts for functional parts in his designs. The ceramic parts have an interesting texture, and he wondered if the same ...

We haven’t seen any projects from serial experimenter [Les Wright] for quite a while, and honestly, we were getting a little worried about that. Turns out we needn’t have fretted, as ...

If you ever look at projects in an old magazine and compare them to today’s electronic projects, there’s at least one thing ...