Typically, when we think of touch screens, we think of LCDs or OLEDs with a resistive or capacitive sensing layer laid over the top. However, a team from the University of Chicago has developed an ...

Consumer-grade 3D printers are useful for lots of things, but they kind of fall down when it comes to making stuff that ...

Engineering design makes all kinds of tradeoffs. Power trades off with torque, strength trades off with weight, and cost can ...

You’ve probably heard of the Flipper Zero, a pocket-sized device that packs in lots of great hacking potential. The team ...

A healthy aquarium ecosystem requires very specific conditions, with factors like the salinity and temperature having to be ...

The bicycle is an invention that has not changed in its fundamentals since the first recognisably modern machines appeared in ...

The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – and ending… ...

We depend on the Hackaday community to help us find all the fresh hacks the Internet has to offer. Whenever you see something you think should be discussed on Hackaday we want to hear from you. This ...

CDMA2000 was one of the protocols defined for 3G networks and is now years out of date and being phased out worldwide. Nevertheless, there are still vast numbers of phones that will happily connect to ...

It’s always nice to simulate a project before soldering a board together. Tools like QUCS run locally and work quite well for analog circuits, but can fall short with programmable logic. Tools like ...

The place is the historic lecture theater of the Royal Institution in London. The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system, ...

Following on the heels of a fortunately not real DDoS botnet composed of electric toothbrushes, [Aaron Christophel] got his hands on a sort-of-electric toothbrush which could totally be exploited for ...