Collaborate Disseminate
People have lived in space stations for decades now, but something is wrong with them. Where are the big rotating wheels? You know the ones. They show up in old …read more Continue reading An Early History of Space Stations: The Brick Moon Made Real
While Hackaday’s bread and butter is, of course, hacks, we sometimes cover things that most of us are interested in that are probably out of reach for the typical hacker. …read more Continue reading Reading isn’t Rocket Science… But In This Case…
FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, SFTP, rsync, or something even fancier. But FTP refuses to die, …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Improving FTP
We’ve heard of wave overhangs before. It is a new technique for printing horizontal overhangs with no supports. Building on some other techniques like arc overhangs. The idea is to …read more Continue reading More On Wave Overhangs for 3D Printing
It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of course, but you’d graduate to maybe …read more Continue reading Another Radio on a Chip Design
[The Modern Rouge] found an old childhood friend in a closet: a Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronic kit. Along with [Josh Nass], he put it through its paces and made a …read more Continue reading Radio Shack Toy Returns to Life
If you ask a random person who [John Mauchly] or [J. Presper Eckert] were, you’d probably get a blank stare. Ask a Hackaday reader, and you have a better shot. …read more Continue reading Mauchly and Eckert’s Other Computers
There are plenty of stories about inventors who see a problem and decide they can do better. But Van Phillips had a little more motivation than most. The problem was …read more Continue reading Bladerunners and the Mother of Invention
In a few hours, there is a solar eclipse that will be visible with a track that goes from Spain up through Greenland. Too late to travel for it, but …read more Continue reading Watch Today’s Eclipse at Home
However you make a digital computer, you need something to represent a binary digit. Usually this is some form of switch: a relay, a tube, or a transistor, although there …read more Continue reading PC-1: The 1954 Computer with no Tubes, Relays, or Transistors