As hardware ages, it becomes harder and harder to keep it in service. Whether that’s because of physical aging or lack of ...

Just about every electronic device has some silicon semiconductors inside these days—from transistors to diodes to integrated ...

Maya Posch] wrote up an insightful, and maybe a bit controversial, piece on the state of consumer goods design: The Death Of ...

Repairing radios was easier when radios were simple. There were typically two strategies. You could use a signal tracer (an amplifier) to listen at the volume control. If you heard something, the ...

Laser-engraving a cylindrical object usually requires a rotary attachment, which is a motorized holder that rotates a cylindrical object in sync with the engraver. But [Samcraft] shows that ...

You can buy all kinds of conventional clocks that have hands and numbers for easy reading. Or, like [Fabio Ricci], you could ...

Adding a camera to a project used to be a chore, but modern camera modules make it simple. But what if you want to read QR ...

It’s hard to argue that Soviet-Era nuclear engineering may have some small flaws, what with the heavily-monitored exclusion zone around Chernobyl No.4. Evidently, their industrial designers ...

What did you miss on Hackaday last week? Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams are ready to catch you up on this week’s ...

Most of us know that a quartz clock uses a higher frequency crystal oscillator and a chain of divider circuits to generate a ...

There was a disturbance in the enterprise security world, and it started with a Pwn2Own Berlin. [Khoa Dinh] and the team at ...

What color do you like your microcontroller boards? Blue? Red? Maybe white or black? Sadly, all of those are about to look ...