Collaborate Disseminate
If legend is to be believed, three disparate social forces in early 20th-century America – the temperance movement, the rise of car culture, and the Scots-Irish culture of the South …read more Continue reading Big Chemistry: Fuel Ethanol
Saw what you want about the wisdom of keeping a 50-year-old space mission going, but the dozen or so people still tasked with keeping the Voyager mission running are some …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 18, 2025
The world’s militaries have always been at the forefront of communications technology. From trumpets and drums to signal flags and semaphores, anything that allows a military commander to relay orders …read more Continue reading Radio Apocalypse: Meteor Burst Communications
Did artificial intelligence just jump the shark? Maybe so, and it came from the legal world of all places, with this report of an AI-generated victim impact statement. In an …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 11, 2025
For all their education, medical practitioners sometimes forget that what’s old hat to them is new territory for their patients. [David Revoy] learned that when a recent visit to the …read more Continue reading Quick and Easy Digital Stethoscope Keeps Tabs on Cat
It’s human nature to look at the technological achievements of the ancients — you know, anything before the 1990s — and marvel at how they were able to achieve precision …read more Continue reading Clickspring’s Experimental Archaeology: Concentric Thin-Walled Tubing
It’s amazing how quickly medical science made radiography one of its main diagnostic tools. Medicine had barely emerged from its Dark Age of bloodletting and the four humours when X-rays …read more Continue reading To See Within: Detecting X-Rays
Building a Commodore 64 is among the easier projects for retrocomputing fans to tackle. That’s because the C64’s core chipset does most of the heavy lifting; source those and you’re …read more Continue reading A Scratch-Built Commodore 64, Turing Style
We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in the universe with this week’s announcement of the detection of biosignatures in the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025
You have to admire the lengths designers went to back in the day to create engaging games and toys. One particularly clever game of this type was called GEE-WIZ, a …read more Continue reading Vintage Game Rides Again Thanks to Modern Tech