There are a lot of distractions in daily life, especially with all the different forms of technology and their accompanying ...

As transport infrastructure in Europe moves toward a zero-carbon future, there remain a number of railway lines which have ...

A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, ...

On a Commodore 64, the computer is normally connected to a monitor with one composite video cable and to an audio device with ...

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

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

Continuous glucose meters (CGMs) aren’t just widgets for the wellness crowd. For many, CGMs are real-time feedback machines ...

Like so many of us, [Liam] has a big problem. Whether it’s the curse of Brown Thumbs or something else, those darn houseplants just keep dying despite guides always telling you ...

Don’t you love it when the title track is the first one on the album? I had to single out this adjustable keyboard called the Protractor, because look at it! The whole thing moves, you know.

Modern micro-controllers are absolute marvels, but it isn’t too many projects use one and nothing else. For an example of such simplicity, take a look at [oyama]’s Pi Pico MIDI looper.

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

Are you a developer or experimenter pondering options for text entry in virtual or mixed reality? If that’s the case (or ...