The IBM PC spawned the basic architecture that grew into the dominant Wintel platform we know today. Once heavy, cumbersome and power thirsty, it’s a machine that you can now emulate on a single ...

We try to always thank our tipsters. The one exception is when the original hacker sent in their own work, which was the case here. If you also sent this one in, George… well, thanks too! And ...

If you’ve ever wanted to operate your own nuclear reactor, you probably aren’t going to get one in your backyard shop. However, thanks to the University of Manchester, you can get a simulated ...

While things like the Arduino platform certainly opened up the gates of microcontroller programming to a much wider audience, it can also be limiting in some ways. The Arduino IDE, for example ...

The average Hackaday reader likely knows, at least in the academic sense, what a magnetic field looks like. But as the gelatinous orbs in our skull can perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM ...

In a Universe ruled by the harsh and unyielding laws of Physics, it’s often tempting to dream of mechanisms which defy these rigid restrictions. Although over the past hundred years we have made ...

We’ve seen several methods of repairing plastic gears. After all, a gear is usually the same all the way around, so it is very tempting to duplicate a good part to replace a damaged part.

Normally, videos over at The Signal Path channel on YouTube have a certain vibe, namely teardowns and deep dives into ...

We’ve seen plenty of motor projects, but [Jeremy]’s DIY Tubular Linear Motor is a really neat variety of stepper motor in a format we certainly don’t see every day. It started as a design ...

BorisDigital] was mesmerised by a modern elevator. He decided to see how hard it would be to design his own elevator based on ...

The phones most of us carry around in our pockets every day hold a surprising amount of computing power. It’s somewhat taken ...

Vibe coding is the buzzword of the moment. What is it? The practice of writing software by describing the problem to an AI ...