Collaborate Disseminate
In theory, all parts are ideal and do just exactly what they say on the box. In practice, everything has its limits, most components have non-ideal characteristics, and you can …read more Continue reading 2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge: Let the Games Begin!
I’ve been flying quadcopters a fair bit lately, and trying to learn some new tricks also means crashing them, which inevitably means repairing them. Last weekend, I was working on …read more Continue reading Keep Reading, Keep Watching
We like to think that we can do almost anything. Give me a broken piece of consumer electronics, and I’ll open it up and kick the capacitors. Give me an …read more Continue reading Knowing That It Is Possible
Here at Hackaday HQ, we all have opinions about the way we like to do things. And no surprise, this extends to the way we like to lay out circuits …read more Continue reading Who is Your Audience?
Al Williams wrote up a seemingly innocent piece on a couple of rules-of-thumb to go between metric and US traditional units, and the comment section went wild! Nothing seems to …read more Continue reading Metric, Imperial, and Flexibility
An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet Mother Isn’t Allowed to See. The idea …read more Continue reading A Love Letter to Prototype Zero
We’re saddened to report the passing of Shunsaku Tamiya, the man behind the Tamiya line of models. What was surprising about this, though, is how many of our readers and …read more Continue reading Thanks, Tamiya-san
[Maya Posch] wrote up an insightful, and maybe a bit controversial, piece on the state of consumer goods design: The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics. …read more Continue reading Personalization, Industrial Design, and Hacked Devices
One of the tropes of the space race back in the 1960s, which helped justify the spending for the part of the public who thought it wasn’t worth it, was …read more Continue reading Trickle Down: When Doing Something Silly Actually Makes Sense
Good news, procrastinators! Today was going to be the last day to throw your hat in the ring for a slot to talk at Supercon in November, but we’re extending …read more Continue reading Last Chance: 2025 Hackaday Supercon Still Wants You!