Collaborate Disseminate
Call us childlike, but we sure do get a kick out of both larger-than-life and miniature things, especially when they work as their “normal-sized” counterparts do. So you can imagine …read more Continue reading When Is An LED a Lamp? When It’s 50mm Wide
A few years ago, [Charles] picked up a sweet Suzuki motorcycle that checked all the boxen: it was in good shape, bore a few useful upgrades and a box of …read more Continue reading Ride DIY or Die This Badge-Less Suzuki
Join Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos as we cuss and discuss all the gnarliest hacks from the past week. We kick off this episode with a gentle …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 175: Moonrocks and Cockroach Chyme, A Raspberry Pi iPad, and a Retro-Respectful Tape Deck
How do the potatoes in that sack keep from sprouting on their long trip from the field to the produce section? Why don’t the apples spoil? To an extent, the …read more Continue reading Food Irradiation Detector Doesn’t Use Banana for Scale
At the risk of dating myself, I will tell you that grew up in the 80s — that decade of excess that was half drab and half brightly colored, depending …read more Continue reading Teardown: KC Bearifone Could Talk Circles Around Teddy Ruxpin
How can the big box store mix the perfect shade of English Wedgwood right before your eyes? The answer is in highly-concentrated pigments that come in many different sizes up …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Turning Big Box Trash Into Art Student Treasure
Ding, dong; the office is dead. The real office is in your head. This is what I tell myself when working from home gets too weird, too stale, too impossible. …read more Continue reading Office Life: The Old Gray Mare, She Ain’t What She Used to Be
Look closely at this beauty. No, that’s not a chopped IBM Model M or anything — it’s a custom 40% capacitive buckling spring keyboard with an ortholinear layout made by …read more Continue reading Custom 40% Model F Keyboard is 100% Awesome
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos for a free-as-in-beer showcase of the week’s most gnarly but palatable hacks. But first, a reminder! Round 2 of the …read more Continue reading Ep 172: Frickin’ Laser Beams, Squishy Stomp Switches, and a Tiny but Powerful DIY Loom
Are you one of those people who hoards cardboard for someday, and then periodically breaks it all down and puts it out for recycling because you haven’t done anything with …read more Continue reading Throw Out That Box? No, Build a Shelving Unit