Collaborate Disseminate
This week, we announced the winners for the previous Pet Hacks contest and rang in our new contest: The One Hertz Challenge. So that’s got me in a contesty mood, …read more Continue reading Limitations, Creativity, and Challenges
It’s about time! Or maybe it’s about time’s reciprocal: frequency. Whichever way you see it, Hackaday is pleased to announce, just this very second, the 2025 One Hertz Challenge over …read more Continue reading Announcing the 2025 Hackaday One Hertz Challenge
When you really love your pawed, feathered, or scaled friends, you build projects for them. (Well, anyway, that’s what’s happened to us.) For the 2025 Pet Hacks Challenge, we asked …read more Continue reading Announcing the 2025 Pet Hacks Winners
When you really love your pawed, feathered, or scaled friends, you build projects for them. (Well, anyway, that’s what’s happened to us.) For the 2025 Pet Hacks Challenge, we asked …read more Continue reading Announcing the 2025 Pet Hacks Winners
I was watching Ben Krasnow making iron nitride permanent magnets and was struck by the fact that about half of the video was about making a magnetometer – a device …read more Continue reading Measurement is Science
In a marvelous college lecture in front of a class of engineering students, V. Hunter Adams professed his love for embedded engineering, but he might as well have been singing …read more Continue reading Pulling Back the Veil, Practically
Just a quickie for anyone who is in the neighborhood, today the annual Open Source Hardware Summit conference starts in Edinburg, Scotland. If you’re able to make it, it’s a …read more Continue reading Today in Edinburgh: The Open Source Hardware Summit
We wrote up a video about speeding up Arduino code, specifically by avoiding DigitalWrite. Now, the fact that DigitalWrite is slow as dirt is long known. Indeed, a quick search …read more Continue reading The Need For Speed?
We’re tremendously excited to be able to announce that the Hackaday Supercon is on for 2025, and will be taking place October 31st through November 2nd in Pasadena, California. Supercon …read more Continue reading Hackaday Supercon 2025 Call For Participation: We Want You!
On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the continuing saga of the libogc debacle. [Tom] has been interviewing some of the principals involved, so he’s got some first-hand …read more Continue reading Open Source Hiding in Plain Sight