Upcycling smartphones makes a lot of sense, especially since they contain so many components that remain useful long after ...

You might fondly remember the days of the Intel 486, but you probably don’t have one on your desk anymore. If you’d like to ...

If we care to cast an eye over the history of ubiquitous personal computing as we know it today, we might immediately point ...

The humble credit card reader — most of us have used hundreds, perhaps even thousands of them over the years. But even for ...

Bridges! We kind of expect them to just be there and do their job, ad infinitum. They are built into the landscape, and we ...

We’re big fans of pushing hardware into situations it wasn’t designed for here at Hackaday, but sometimes you’ve got to ...

In the open source world we are used to software being compiled from source for our particular distro, so while in a few ...

Having watched some fun videos on repurposed satellite dishes on YouTube, [Melan] wanted to get in on the action. She managed ...

Airborne micro particles can be a significant health hazard in a workshop, and thus it’s important to maintain a high ...

There are some devices which achieve electronic immortality, it’s likely that you have used a few of them yourself. The 555 ...

Trucks are handy, especially if you’ve got messy or dirty loads, but there aren’t a lot of options if you want a small ...

Infrared (IR) communication technologies are probably one of the most influential, yet also one of the least flashiest. The fact that IR communication tends to be highly directional and often ...