Collaborate Disseminate
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
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