Long before the first airplanes took to the skies, humans had already overcome gravity with the help of airships. Starting ...

Movies mirror the time they were made. [ErnieTech] asserts that we can see what people thought about computers back in 1957 ...

BLE, accelerometer, heart sensor, and a battery, all in a tiny package that fits on your finger. Back when we covered it, we ...

Imagine cooling your building with the same principle that kept Victorian-era icehouses stocked with lake-frozen blocks, but ...

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

Getting a robot to stand on two wheels without tipping over involves a challenging dance with the laws of physics.

Small cylindrical parts are often formed through deep drawing — a process by which a punch forms the finished piece from a ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a ...

Have you been to FOSDEM? It’s a yearly two-day megaconference in Brussels, every first weekend of February. Thousands of ...

As consumers worldwide slowly make the switch from internal combustion vehicles to lower-carbon equivalents, a few concerns ...

If you’re coming to Hackaday Europe 2025, you’ve got just over a week to get your bags packed and head on out to Berlin. Of ...

There’s been a lot of buzz about Meshtastic lately, and with good reason. The low-power LoRa-based network has a ton of ...