Collaborate Disseminate
As the sun goes down on a glorious spring evening on the western edge of Europe, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for a look at the week in …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 362: Compression Molding, IPv4x, and Wired Headphones
You have a tiny twenty-year-old hard drive with a weird interface. How do you read it? If you’re [Will Whang], by reverse engineering, and building an interface board. In many …read more Continue reading Reading the World’s Smallest Hard Drive
Building a battery pack from 18650 cells traditionally requires patience, a spot welder, and a supply of nickel strip. But what if there was another way? [Ben] is here with …read more Continue reading Modular 18650 Packs, No Spot Welding Required
It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about their being used to print firearms. The latest surrounds a …read more Continue reading Hacking The System In A Moral Panic: We Need To Talk
Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on a car from the ’60s or before — worked? [Jonelsonster] …read more Continue reading A Voltage Regulator Before Electronics
The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor, his calamitous management of Shockley Semiconductor which led to a …read more Continue reading The Shockley 4-Layer Diode In 2026
ArcaOS is an operating system you might not have heard of, but you will recognize it when we tell you that it’s the direct descendant of IBM’s OS/2. It’s just …read more Continue reading OS/2 Never Went Away. Its Successor Has Received An Update
The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of the most interesting might-have-beens was the CBS field-sequential system. This was a rival to the …read more Continue reading How Would a Field Sequential Home Computer Have Worked?
When building a radio transmitter, unless it’s a very small one indeed, there’s a need for an amplifier before the antenna. This is usually referred to as the power amplifier, …read more Continue reading A Radio Power Amplifier for Not a Lot
There’s a meme which may have a basis in truth, of a teenager left clueless when presented with a rotary telephone. The dial, in reality a mechanical pulse chain generator, …read more Continue reading A Rotary Dial The 3D Printed Way