For better or worse, there are a few instruments that have been pigeonholed into specific genres of popular music. For ...

We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries are, and ...

These days, it’s pretty easy to slap together a single-board computer and a cheap LCD screen to whip up a cool cyberdeck fast ...

The famous cuckoo clock, with its moving, chirping mechanical bird indicating various divisions of time, has been around ...

The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the ...

Nothing lasts forever, but you’d think the leaded-glass face of a CRT would not be a place you’re likely to see Father Time causing failures. Alas, the particle accelerators we all ...

Conway’s Game of Life excels in its simplicity, creating a cellular automaton on a 2D grid where each cell obeys a set of very simple rules that determine whether a cell is ...

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types of software, but due to ...

Given its abundance and simplicity, the RP2040 has no doubt become a favourite for USB peripheral building – in particular, USB-connected tools for electronics experiments. Today, we see one … ...

It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than ...

Beyond the power variant, it sometimes seems as though we rarely encounter a discrete transistor these days, such has been the advance of integrated electronics. But they have a rich history, going ...

For anyone who’s joined us for previous years, you’ll know that badge hacking and modification are core to the Hackaday Supercon experience. While you’re of course free to leave the badge completely ...