Collaborate Disseminate
Today, you likely often authenticate or pay for things with a tap, either using a chip in your card, or with your phone, or maybe even with your watch or …read more Continue reading Java Ring: One Wearable to Rule All Authentications
Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon …read more Continue reading Static Electricity And The Machines That Make It
It is hard to imagine that a handful of decades ago, TV wasn’t a thing. We’ve talked a few times about the birth of television. After an admittedly slow slow …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: Things Your TV No Longer Needs
There are a lot of fantastic things about Hackaday Supercon, but for me personally, the highlight is always seeing the dizzying array of electronic bits and bobs that folks bring …read more Continue reading An Ode to the SAO
You probably think of them as “Ziploc” bags, but, technically, the generic term is zipper bag. Everything from electronic components to coffee beans arrive in them. But they weren’t always …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Zipper Bags
A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time (or rather, lack thereof). Collecting data has been super helpful …read more Continue reading Hack On Self: Collecting Data
Like many people who solder regularly, I decided years ago to upgrade from a basic iron and invest in a soldering station. My RadioShack digital station has served me well …read more Continue reading Review: iFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy
In the early 1990s I was privileged enough to be immersed in the world of technology during the exciting period that gave birth to the World Wide Web, and I …read more Continue reading A Look At The Small Web, Part 1
While plastics are very useful on their own, they can be much stronger when reinforced and mixed with a range of fibers. Not surprisingly, this includes the thermoplastic polymers which …read more Continue reading Reinforcing Plastic Polymers With Cellulose and Other Natural Fibers
Writing for Hackaday involves drinking from the firehose of tech news, and seeing the latest and greatest of new projects and happenings in the world of hardware. But sometimes you …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday, What’s Next?