5+ hour, 41+ min ago  (34+ words) Back in the days when an integrated circuit meant a simple but expensive device such as a 741 or a 555, most electronics enthusiasts made do with discrete transistor circuits. The common emitter ampli......

12+ hour, 16+ min ago  (265+ words) Hackaday This following statement is a lie: “I am telling the truth” Okay, now that it’s just us meatbags, let’s get down to brass tacks Captain Kirk’s logic bombs couldn’t possibly work on modern LLMs,…...

11+ hour, 53+ min ago  (38+ words) Many older hackers will have at some point gotten rid of an old piece of hardware that they later ended up regretting. All those ISA cards were next to useless back in 2006, but now their relative rar......

13+ hour, 12+ min ago  (39+ words) There are a lot of ESP32-based development boards out there-- and why not? It's a versatile chip that can be used in all sorts of situations, and people want boards to match them. Not finding one to h......

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (398+ words) [Aditya Sripada] and [Abhishek Warrier]’s TARS3D robot came from asking what it would take to make a robot with the capabilities of TARS, the robotic character from Interstellar. We couldn’t find a repository of CAD files or code but the…...

17+ hour, 5+ min ago  (31+ words) To give people the most intimate RBMK experience, the [Chornobyl Family] has been working tirelessly at not only replicating the original RBMK reactor control room and its SKALA industrial control sys......

17+ hour, 21+ min ago  (38+ words) There was a time in the early 1980s when it was common to see home made keyboards for 8-bit machines that came with membrane or rubber keyboards. Though we've seen any numbers of home made modern 'boa......

17+ hour, 6+ min ago  (81+ words) We are absolutely stoked to announce that the Hackaday Superconference is taking place this year November 6th through 8th in glorious Pasadena California, and we want to see you there! If you’ve be......

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (610+ words) PLA makes excellent kindling if you have a cardboard or wood substrate to catch and absorb the dripping. It burns smoke-free and leaves no ash. It behaves a lot like paraffin wax. Now I wonder how well it will work…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (723+ words) This is not an article on how to use your Kindle’s internet connection with your computer. We’ll let [Jesse] explain why: This is not a tutorial about how to use the Kindle 2’s Sprint connection from... [Jeremy] picked up a…...