We at Hackaday are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Murray-Smith. The prolific experimenter had spent over a ...

It’s little secret that stepper motors are everywhere in FDM 3D printers, but there’s no real reason why you cannot take another type of DC motor like a brushless DC (BLDC) motor and ...

The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was just a poor kid trying to ...

There’s something extremely calming and pleasing about watching a screensaver that merely bounces some kind of image around, ...

Glasses are perhaps the most non-invasive method of vision correction, followed by contact lenses. Each have their drawbacks ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this ...

This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a MCU and layout into ...

Our hacker [Pat Deegan] of Psychogenic Technologies shows us the entire process of designing an analog ASIC. An ASIC is of course an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, which is basically ...

Over on brushless.zone, we’ve come across an interesting write-up that details the construction of a dam control system. This is actually the second part, in the first, we learn that some ...

Airbags are an incredibly important piece of automotive safety gear. They’re also terrifying—given that they’re effectively ...

Taking on a refrigerator-sized minicomputer  is not for the faint-hearted, but [Usagi Electric] has done it with a DEC PDP-11/44. He’s not doing it in half measures either, for his machine ...

If you’ve got an existing smart home rig, motion sensors can be a useful addition to your setup. You can use them for all ...