Collaborate Disseminate
One of the ongoing rumors and scandals in professional cycle sport concerns “motor doping” — the practice of concealing an electric motor in a bicycle to provide the rider with …read more Continue reading The Perfect Cheat’s Racing Bicycle
There aren’t many speed records that remain unbroken for the greater part of a century, but one of them is that of the fastest steam locomotive. As with so many …read more Continue reading Examining A World’s Record From The Age Of Steam
For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually …read more Continue reading The Long Afterlife Of The Console Modchip
An auspicious anniversary passed for me this week, as it’s a decade since I started writing for Hackaday. In that time this job has taken me all over Europe, it’s …read more Continue reading Reflections On Ten Years With The Wrencher
The modern web browser is now far more than a thing for rendering web pages, it’s a multi-faceted environment that can provide a home for almost any application you could …read more Continue reading CSS, Now It’s Got Your 8086
The Haxophone is an open source MIDI saxophone project that has achieved some popularity. It’s caught the attention of [Shieladixon] not because she is a saxophonist but because she plays …read more Continue reading Building the Haxocorder
The guitarist Jimi Hendrix had a unique sound which has influenced countless musicians over the decades. He achieved it through mastery not only of his instrument, but of the complex …read more Continue reading The Engineering of a Jimi Hendrix Performance
Analog TV may have shuffled off its mortal coil years ago, but there are still plenty of old CRT TV sets around that could receive it. [Kris Slyka] has just …read more Continue reading A TV Transmitter From An STM32
For today’s podcast Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List, and we’re pushing the limits of mobile connectivity as Jenny’s coming to us from a North Sea ferry. We start …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode Ep 358: Soft Displays, LCD Apertures, and Mind Controlled Toys
There was a period from the 1970s to the mid-2000s or so when a fixture underneath the family TV set was a VHS videocassette recorder. These were a masterpiece of …read more Continue reading HD on a VHS Tape? How Did They Do It?