On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure ...

If you’ve ever used an NE602 or similar IC to build a radio, you might have noticed that the datasheet has a “gilbert cell” mixer. What is that? [Electronics for the Inquisitive ...

Once upon a time, owning a calculator watch was the epitome of cool. Well, for a very specific subset of the population with ...

When you’re like [Wes] from Watch Wes Work fame, you don’t have a CNC machine hoarding issue, you just have a healthy interest in going down CNC machine repair rabbit holes. Such too ...

It’s likely that Hackaday readers have among them a greater than average number of people who can name one special thing they ...

Zack], in addition to being a snappy dresser, has a thing for strange 3D printing filament. How strange? Well, in a recent ...

If you take a look around you, chances are pretty good that within a few seconds, your eyes will fall on some kind of electrical connector. In this day and age, it’s as likely as not to be a ...

When the iconic “Boing Ball” first debuted 40 years ago, it was a wonder to behold. There was nothing like it in the home compuing world upto that time, and it showed that ...

Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection ...

Whenever there’s a superlative involved, you know that degree of optimization has to leave something else on the table. In ...

This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It’s a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you ...

We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one far outweighs its value. But ...