At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the ...

Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about ...

Emulating older computers on microcontrollers has been a staple of retrocomputing for many years now, with most 8-bit and ...

While EEG research might help you figure out extrasensory perception, we won’t be betting on it. However, if you want to read ...

A knob can make a surprisingly versatile interface, particularly if it’s the SmartKnob, which builds a knob around a BLDC ...

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound ...

We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come from Raspberry Pi in Cambridge over the years, ...

In the world of social media, “keeping receipts” refers to the practice of storing evidence that may come in handy for a callout post at a later date. For [Teddy Warner], though, it’s more applicable ...

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in ...

If you’ve ever heard the sound of an aircraft passing overhead and looked at an online plane tracker to try and figure out ...

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough ...