Collaborate Disseminate
Drive along nearly any major road in the United States and it won’t be long before you see evidence of the electrical grid. Whether it’s wooden poles strung along the …read more Continue reading A Field Guide to the North American Substation
The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water purification system feeding a hydraulic lift to raise … Continue reading Ancient hydraulic lift systems could have helped build the pyramids
An interesting finding in fields like computer science is that much of what is advertised as new and innovative was actually pilfered from old research papers submitted to ACM and …read more Continue reading AMD Returns to 1996 With Zen 5’s Two-Block Ahead Branch Predictor
Although most energy storage solutions on a grid-level focus on batteries, a group of researchers at MIT and Harvard University have proposed using supercapacitors instead, with their 2023 research article …read more Continue reading Carbon–Cement Supercapacitors Proposed as an Energy Storage Solution
The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage …read more Continue reading The Flash Memory Lifespan Question: Why QLC May Be NAND Flash’s Swan Song
We see a lot of hacks where the path to success is pretty obvious, if maybe strewn with all sorts of complications, land-mines, and time-sinks. Then we get other hacks …read more Continue reading Halfway Between Inspiration and Engineering
Here at Hackaday we’re suckers for vintage promotional movies, and we’ve brought you quite a few over the years. Their boundless optimism and confidence in whatever product they are advancing …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Tools And Dies That Made Mass Production Possible
By the time you read this the Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) should be making its way along the Delaware River, heading back to its permanent mooring on the …read more Continue reading Taking a Look Underneath the Battleship New Jersey
Climbers care a lot about their ropes because their lives literally depend on them. And while there’s been tremendous progress in climbing rope tech since people first started falling onto …read more Continue reading When Your Rope is Your Life
We take it for granted that you can look at your phone and tell exactly where you are. At least, as exact as the GPS satellites will allow. But throughout …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Theodolites