Fun and Failure
My sister is a beekeeper, or maybe a meta-beekeper. She ends up making more money by breeding and selling new queen bees to other beekeepers than she does by selling …read more Continue reading Fun and Failure
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Your Data in the Cloud
I try not to go off on security rants in the newsletter, but this week I’m unable to hold back. An apparent breach of a data aggregator has resulted in …read more Continue reading Your Data in the Cloud
Hacker Olympics
The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics is going on today. It’s an over-the-top presentation meant to draw people into sport. And for the next few weeks, we’ll be seeing …read more Continue reading Hacker Olympics
It’s Not Unsual to Love Hacking
Most of what we do here at Hackaday is look out for cool projects and then write them up so that you all know about them. Nothing is better than …read more Continue reading It’s Not Unsual to Love Hacking
Halfway Between Inspiration and Engineering
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
Danger is My Middle Name
Last week, [Al Williams] wrote up a his experience with a book that provided almost too much detailed information on how to build a DIY x-ray machine for his (then) …read more Continue reading Danger is My Middle Name
Thanks for the Great Comments!
Every once in a while, there’s a Hackaday article where the comments are hands-down the best part of a post. This happened this week with Al Williams’ Ask Hackaday: How …read more Continue reading Thanks for the Great Comments!
Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think
Last week, I stumbled on a marvelous book: “Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think” by Edmund Callis Berkeley. What’s really fun about it is the way it sounds like it …read more Continue reading Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think
Happy Birthday, Tetris!
Porting DOOM to everything that’s even vaguely Turing complete is a sport for the advanced hacker. But if you are just getting started, or want to focus more on the …read more Continue reading Happy Birthday, Tetris!
Sometimes It’s Not the Solution
Watching a video about a scratch-built ultra-precise switch for metrology last week reminded me that it’s not always the projects that are the most elegant solutions that I enjoy reading …read more Continue reading Sometimes It’s Not the Solution