Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve previously reported from the UK about the Online Safety Bill, a piece of internet safety legislation that contains several concerning provisions relating to online privacy and encryption. UK laws …read more Continue reading The UK Online Safety Bill Becomes Law, What Does It Mean?
[Crispernaki] and I have something in common. We both saw this awesome project that made a scroll wheel out of a VHS head back in 2010, and wanted to make …read more Continue reading Impostor Syndrome: It’s Not Your Fault!
We were not surprised to read that a company that tracks NFTs declared that most NFTs are now worthless. But the NFT — non-fungible token — market was huge, so …read more Continue reading NFTs and Tulipmania: A Little Bit of History Repeating
Firmware is caught between hardware and software. What do I mean? Microcontroller designers compete on how many interesting and useful hardware peripherals they can add to the chips, and they …read more Continue reading Close to the Metal
It’s like Star Wars versus Star Trek at a SciFi convention, or asking creamy or chunky at the National Peanut Butter Appreciation Festival. (OK, we made that one up.) When …read more Continue reading Try It Out
When do you post your projects? When they’re done? When they’re to the basic prototype stage? Or all along the way, from their very conception? All of these have their …read more Continue reading Horrendous Mess of Wires
As with many things in life, motivation is everything. This also applies to the development of software, which is a field that has become immensely important over the past decades. …read more Continue reading Do Bounties Hurt FOSS?
You might find yourself, dear Hackaday reader, attracted to some pretty strange corners of the tech world. Who knows when that knowledge of stenography, ancient retrocomputing, and floppy disk internals …read more Continue reading Confluence of Nerdery
I get it — you hate writing by hand. But have you ever considered why that is? Is it because typing is easier, faster, and more convenient here in 2023? …read more Continue reading What Is Killing Cursive? Ballpoints. Probably.
While we were debating about whether it even makes any sense to reboot RadioShack, or indeed any brick-and-mortar electronics store in the modern era, Dan Maloney and I stumbled on …read more Continue reading Inspiration