For those first venturing into sailing, it can be overwhelming since the experience is thick with jargon and skills that ...

If you take a video of a spinning wheel, you’ll probably notice that the spokes appear to turn more slowly than the wheel is actually rotating, and sometimes in the wrong direction. This is caused ...

Many of us will have seen the portable solar panels offered on our favourite online purveyors of electronics, but some who ...

As unloved as IBM’s PCjr was, with only a one-year production run, it’s hard to complain about the documentation available ...

It seems to be becoming a bit of a theme that consumer electronics are dying not due to some critical fault, but due to ...

It’s been three weeks since the Artemis II crew returned to Earth, and while the mission might be over for Reid Wiseman, ...

If you follow [Maker’s Muse] on YouTube, you know he’s as passionate about robot fights these days as he is about the tools ...

There aren’t many speed records that remain unbroken for the greater part of a century, but one of them is that of the fastest steam locomotive. As with so many such things, there’s a bit of ...

What if you have a need for liquid nitrogen, but you do not wish to simply order it from a local supplier? In that case you can build your very own pulse tube cryocooler, as [Hyperspace Pirate] is in ...

We recently got a note in the tips line from [Tavis Gustafson], who is one of the developers of Tronbyt — a replacement firmware and self-hosted backend that breaks the Tidbyt smart display free from ...

LEGO bricks might look simplistic, but did you know there’s an actual science behind their sizes? Enter LDUs — LEGO Draw Units — the minuscule measurement standard that allows those tiny interlocking ...

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to trade their favorite posts of the week. Tune in and see if your favorites made the list. From crazy intricate automata to surprising problems ...