Collaborate Disseminate
[Fraens] has been re-making industrial machines in fantastic 3D-printable versions for a few years now, and we’ve loved watching his creations get progressively more intricate. But with this nearly completely …read more Continue reading Fraens’ New Loom and the Limits of 3D Printing
[Boz] wants to build a retrocomputer, but where to start? You could start with the computery bits, like say the CPU or the bus architecture, but where’s the fun in that? …read more Continue reading Blinkenlights-First Retrocomputer Design
Hackaday was at Chaos Communication Congress last week, and it’s one of those big hacker events that leaves you with so much to think about that I’m still processing it. …read more Continue reading In Praise of Simple Projects
It’s been a good 2025 so far! I just got back from Chaos Communication Congress, which is easily my favorite gigantic hacker conference of the year. (Partisan Hackaday pride puts …read more Continue reading Resolution: Share Inspiration
You know how you can fall down a rabbit hole when you start on a project? [Fabian Bräunlein] and [Luca Melette] were looking at a box on a broken streetlamp …read more Continue reading 38C3: Taking Down the Power Grid Over Radio
BEESAT-1 is a 1U cubesat launched in 2009 by the Technical University of Berlin. Like all good satellites, it has redundant computers onboard, so when the first one failed in …read more Continue reading 38C3: Save Your Satellite with These Three Simple Tricks
One of the blockbuster talks at last year’s Chaos Communications Congress covered how a group of hackers discovered code that allegedly bricked public trains in Poland when they went into …read more Continue reading 38C3: Lawsuits are Temporary; Glory is Forever
If you just want to use a debugger for your microcontroller project, you buy some hardware device, download the relevant driver software, and fire up GDB. But if you want …read more Continue reading 38C3: Xobs on Hardware Debuggers
At the 38th Chaos Communications Congress, [Frostie314159] and [Jasper Devreker] gave us a nice update on their project to write an open-source WiFi stack for the ESP32. If you’re interested …read more Continue reading 38C3: Towards an Open WiFi MAC Stack on ESP32
This one isn’t clickbait, but it is cheating. [Brian Haidet], the guy behind Alpha Phoenix, has managed to assemble movie footage of a laser beam crossing his garage, using a …read more Continue reading Taking “Movies” of Light in Flight