Collaborate Disseminate
Back in 2017, Hackaday featured an audio reactive LED strip project from [Scott Lawson], that has over the years become an extremely popular choice for the party animals among us. …read more Continue reading Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Hard
Like many long-established broadcasters, the BBC put out a selection of their archive material for us all to enjoy online. Their most recent may be of interest to Hackaday readers …read more Continue reading The Brits Made a Rocket. What Happened To It?
The Intel era of Apple Macs led to so-called “Hackintoshes”, more normal PCs running x86 MacOS X. Now Brian Keller proves that a Hackintosh isn’t restricted to the x86 era, …read more Continue reading You’ve All Seen A Hackintosh, But Have You Seen One On A Wii?
It’s odd being a technology writer in 2026, because around you are many people who will tell you that your craft is outdated. Like the manufacturers of buggy-whips at the …read more Continue reading AI For The Skeptics: Pick Your Reasons To Be Excited
In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle of truck drivers in the southern half of the United States. Over on the other …read more Continue reading 934 MHz: When The Government Really Doesn’t Want You To Have CB
Now that early PCs have moved firmly from the realm of e-waste into being collector’s items, it’s worth putting in some effort to restore them if you find one. [Epictronics] …read more Continue reading Cleaning an IBM 5150, And The Perfect Period PCB Soldermask
Every collector ends up with items that are worthless, usually because they are broken or incomplete. When [Graindead] found a 1920s glass-plate reflex camera for pennies with plenty of missing …read more Continue reading Scrap Vintage Camera Goes Digital with Scanner Parts
There are many events so far in 2026 that could reasonably have been predicted, but perhaps one which couldn’t is a Hackaday scribe in Europe unexpectedly finding herself with a …read more Continue reading The Rapper, The Canadian Academics, And The Secret Behind The Earworm
The Allen Scythe is one of those fantastic pieces of vintage agricultural machinery which would never be allowed to be manufactured today for health and safety reasons. It’s a two-wheel …read more Continue reading Making a Vintage Allen Scythe Electric
The Sinclair ZX81 was hardly the most accomplished of 1980s 8-bit microcomputers, but its ultra-low-budget hardware was certainly pressed into service for some impressive work. Perhaps the most legendary piece …read more Continue reading For Such a Small Program, ZX81 1K Chess Sure Packs a Lot In