As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To this day it’s quite literally the ...

Glen Akins] reported on Bluesky that the Zigbee-based sensor he had made for his garden’s rear gate was still going strong ...

Like so many of us, [Liam] has a big problem. Whether it’s the curse of Brown Thumbs or something else, those darn ...

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It’s not unusual for redundant satellites, rocket stages, or other spacecraft to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere. Usually ...

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If you’ve only been around for the Internet age, you may not realize that Hackaday is the successor of electronics magazines.

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It was probably Montesquieu who coined the proto-hacker motto “the best is the mortal enemy of the good”. He was talking ...

The Star Trek tricorder was a good example of a McGuffin. It did anything needed to support the plot or, in some cases, ...