Collaborate Disseminate
Every time we end up talking about 3D printers, Al Williams starts off on how bad he is in a machine shop. I’m absolutely sure that he’s exaggerating, but the …read more Continue reading “Man and Machine” vs “Man vs Machine”
It was probably Montesquieu who coined the proto-hacker motto “the best is the mortal enemy of the good”. He was talking about compromises in drafting national constitutions for nascent democracies, …read more Continue reading From Good Enough to Best
This week, the hackerverse was full of “vibe coding”. If you’re not caught up on your AI buzzwords, this is the catchy name coined by [Andrej Karpathy] that refers to …read more Continue reading Vibing, AI Style
A dog may be man’s best friend, but many of us live with cats, fish, iguanas, or even wilder animals. And naturally, we like to share our hacks with our …read more Continue reading Announcing the Hackaday Pet Hacks Contest
Earlier this year, I bought one of those K40-style laser machines that was listed at a ridiculously low price, and it arrived broken. Well, let me qualify that: the laser …read more Continue reading Biting Off More Than I Can Chew
[David] sent us a tip about a company in Belgium, Citronics, that is looking to turn old cellphones into single-board computers for embedded Linux applications. We think it’s a great …read more Continue reading Turning Old Cellphones into SBCs
If you made something blink, and now it’s time for you to make something move, something like a point-to-a-satellite tracker is a great idea. [Farid] made this moving arrow that …read more Continue reading Tracking the ISS Made Easy
[Ben Eater]’s breadboard 6502 computer is no stranger to these parts, so it was a bit of a surprise that when [Mark] wrote in asking us if we’d covered [Ben]’s …read more Continue reading Ben Eater vs. Microsoft BASIC
If you’re living your life right, you probably know what as MOSFET is. But do you know the MESFET? They are like the faster, uninsulated, Schottky version of a MOSFET, …read more Continue reading How Shrinking Feature Size Made Modern Wireless Work
If you flew or drove anything remote controlled until the last few years, chances are very good that you’d be using some faceless corporation’s equipment and radio protocols. But recently, …read more Continue reading Lockdown Remote Control Project is Free and Open