Collaborate Disseminate
Lithium-ion cells deliver very high energy densities compared to many other battery technologies, but they bring with them a danger of fire or explosion if they are misused. We’re mostly …read more Continue reading Lumafield Shows Why Your Cheap 18650 Cells Are Terrible
I think most of us who make or build things have a thing we are known for making. Where it’s football robots, radios, guitars, cameras, or inflatable textile sculptures, we …read more Continue reading Two Decades Of Hackaday In Words
Over the years, we’ve brought you many stories of the creative artwork behind electronic event badges, but today we may have a first for you. [Spencer] thinks nobody before him …read more Continue reading Decorate Your Neck with The First Z80 Badge
In Europe, where this is being written, and possibly further afield, news reports are again full of drone sightings closing airports. The reports have come from Scandinavia, in particular Denmark, …read more Continue reading Drones At Danish Airports, A Plea For Responsible Official Response
In the early 1980s, there was the IBM PC, with its 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor. It was an unexpected hit for the company, and within a few years there …read more Continue reading NEC V20: The Original PC Processor Upgrade
If you know anything about Mickey Mouse, you’ll be able to tell us that his first outing was in 1928’s Steamboat Willie — an animated short that sees our hero …read more Continue reading Steamboat Willie Still Tests Copyright
Of the many great technological leaps made in the middle of the 20th century, one of the ones with perhaps the greatest impact on our modern life takes a back …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Ferguson System
Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very …read more Continue reading Jenny’s Daily Drivers: KDE Linux
It’s been a trope of the news cycle over the past decade or so, that there’s some element which we all need but which someone else has the sole supply, …read more Continue reading Unobtanium No More; Perhaps We Already Have All The Elements We Need
Desktop environments are the norm as computer interfaces these days, but there was once a time when they were a futuristic novelty whose mere presence on a computer marked it …read more Continue reading A GEM Of A Desktop Environment