Despite being a readily-available source of useful plastic, massive numbers of disposable bottles go to waste every day. To ...

It should come as no surprise that the hacker community has embraced the Meshtastic project. It’s got a little bit of ...

Sometimes, we’re faced with what should be simple household tasks that we choose to make more difficult. Sure, you could buy ...

Sometimes, there are too many choices in this world. My benchtop function generator can output a sine, square, or saw wave ...

A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and ...

These days, the personal MP3 player has been largely replaced by the the smartphone. However, [Justinas Petkauskas] still appreciates the iPod for its tactility and portability, and wanted to ...

When Raspberry Pi’s new RP2350 MCU was released in 2024, it had a slight issue in that its GPIO pins would leak a significant amount of current when a pin is configured as input with the ...

In the formative experiences of most Hackaday readers there will almost certainly be a number of common threads, for example ...

With us chafing at time zones and daylight saving time (DST) these days, it can be easy to forget how much more confusing things were in the late 19th century. Back then few areas had synchronized ...

When film all came in rolls, it was fairly easy to play with the frame of the image. Companies like Hasselblad (and many others) made camera backs that would expose longer strips of 35 mm film to ...

Frequency! It’s an important thing to measure, which is why [Jacques Pelletier] built a frequency counter some time ago. The four-function unit is humble, capable, and also an entry into our ...

In the retrocomputing world, [DosDude1] is a name spoken with more than a little respect. He’s back again with a long-awaited ...