Over recent years there have been a range of classic 16-bit consoles coaxed into running familiar operating systems, with ...

It’s quite likely that many readers will have harbored dreams of owning, or at least driving, a steam engine of some kind.

Making a film camera is a project within the reach of almost anyone, from the experimenter with cardboard and sticky tape, to ...

Drone control links are, from a radio signals perspective, nothing short of amazing: using a transmitter capable of ...

On Hackaday last week, and on the podcast, we were talking about one of the educational toys of yesteryear that launched a ...

If you’ve got a cheap ham rig, it might not be very practical for you to receive certain transmissions out of the box.

A time-honored tradition in the electronics repair business is to make many into one, specifically a stack of broken devices ...

[Jumpor] lives in a part of India where the water infrastructure is a little frustrating to use. Water gets delivered to underground tanks outside of homes, and must then be regularly pumped into ...

As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic ...

With the wealth of cheap and highly integrated audio amplifier modules on the market today, it takes a special dedication to roll your own from parts. Especially when those parts include vacuum tubes, ...

If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You ...

In this session of Logic Noise, we’ll be playing around with the voltage-controlled oscillator from a 4046 phase-locked loop chip, and using it to make “musical” pitches. It’s a lot of bang for the ...