Collaborate Disseminate
What do you do whilst your code’s compiling? Pull up Hackaday? Check Elon Musk’s net worth? Research the price of a faster PC? Or do you wonder what’s taking so long, and decide to switch out your build system?
Clamber …read more
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What’s Your Favourite Build Tool? Can Make Ever Be Usurped?
Many of the projects we serve up on Hackaday are freshly minted, hot off the press endeavors. But sometimes, just sometimes, we stumble across ideas from the past that are simply too neat to be passed over. This is one of those times — and the contraption in question is …read more
Continue reading The Black Magic of a Disappearing Linear Actuator
In 2020, our digital world and the software we use to create it are a towering structure, built upon countless layers of abstraction and building blocks — just think about all the translations and interactions that occur from loading a webpage. Whilst abstraction is undoubtedly a great thing, it only …read more
Continue reading Frances Allen Optimised Your Code Without You Even Knowing
If you’ve logged onto GitHub recently and you’re an active user, you might have noticed a new badge on your profile: “Arctic Code Vault Contributor”. Sounds pretty awesome right? But whose code got archived in this vault, how is it being stored, and what’s the point?
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Did GitHub Ship All Our Software Off To The Arctic?
In June, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf made an announcement on a Usenet group. You can still read it.
Announcing the Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0.
These tools are a set of small tight cgi binaries written in C.
Today, twenty five years on, PHP is about as ubiquitous …read more
Continue reading Does PHP Have A Future, Or Are Twenty Five Years Enough?
Microsoft’s open-source shopping spree has claimed another victim: npm. [Nat Friedman], CEO of GitHub (owned by Microsoft), announced the move recently on the GitHub blog.
So what motivated the acquisition, and what changes are we likely to see as a result of it? There are some obvious upsides and integrations, …read more
Continue reading What Does GitHub’s npm Acquisition Mean For Developers?
If you write software, chances are you’ve come across Continuous Integration, or CI. You might never have heard of it – but you wonder what all the ticks, badges and mysterious status icons are on open-source repositories you find online. You might hear friends waxing lyrical about the merits of …read more
Continue reading Continuous Integration: What It Is And Why You Need It
With an ever-growing range of smart-home products available, all with their own hubs, protocols, and APIs, we see a lot of DIY projects (and commercial offerings too) which aim to provide a “single universal interface” to different devices and services. Usually, these projects allow you to control your home using …read more
When building robots, or indeed other complex mechanical systems, it’s often the case that more and more limit switches, light gates and sensors are amassed as the project evolves. Each addition brings more IO pin usage, cost, potentially new interfacing requirements and accompanying microcontrollers or ADCs. If you don’t have …read more
Continue reading FiberGrid: An Inexpensive Optical Sensor Framework
There’s nothing quite like the sight of a plastic box merrily sailing its way around a lake to symbolise how easy it is to get started in autonomous robotics. This isn’t a project we’re writing about because of technical excellence, but purely because watching an autonomous tupperware box navigate a …read more