Collaborate Disseminate
[Jenny] and I were talking about [Bitluni]’s experiment in scale, where he will take 65,536 cheap microcontrollers, network them all together, and give each one an RGB pixel. From there, …read more Continue reading When Changing Scale Isn’t Just More of the Same
Watching [sprite_tm]’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions of how much of the computer needs to be actually …read more Continue reading Yesterday’s Technology, Re-engineered Today
How long have we been hacking routers? To some of you who’ve been in the Hackaday audience for a while, the answer is “nearly forever”. In the early 2000s, they …read more Continue reading Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008
We’ve been talking a bunch of home automation on the Podcast lately, and this week, in the Mailbag segment, a reader asked us about our setups. Neither Kristina nor I …read more Continue reading Home Automation: Simple vs Easy
I studied physics in college, and I’m always surprised how fundamental some of the concepts are. Take waves for example. You really wouldn’t expect the same underlying concept to be …read more Continue reading Patterns Everywhere
Last week, Elliot got his foot stepped on by a 1.5 metric ton draft horse, and boy is he glad to be back to the relative safety of podcasting! Joining …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Ep 373: GPS, Danger In Space, and Robby the Robot
We don’t need to tell you: lasers are awesome. Those tiny red beams aren’t just for frustrating cats, but can do real work, be a source of infinite beauty, or …read more Continue reading The Frikkin Lasers Contest Starts Now
The 2026 installment of Hackaday Europe was last weekend, and I’m still basking in the warm glow of hanging out with such an inspiring group of hackers. It’s hard to …read more Continue reading Amazing Stories
With Hackaday Europe no more than two days away, we want to help you wrap up all of the last loose ends. And that means last-minute changes in the workshop …read more Continue reading 2026 Hackaday Europe: Pre-party, More Workshops, and Everything Else
We got asked a great question in the mailbag segment on the Podcast this week: are there hacks that we have read about on Hackaday that we use in our …read more Continue reading Copy or Redesign?