The Hammond organ is an early form of electronic– or perhaps electromechanical– musical instrument. It solved the very real ...

A fun way to think about a national electrical grid is as a massively upscaled electrical circuit, one in which you have ...

Makestreme] had always wanted to own a nice telescope, but found that budget would not stretch to anything above a cheap ...

If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed in the tech world it’s that nothing is guaranteed. From AOL, Netscape, Yahoo, and ...

Would you like to make your own energy? Why, who doesn’t in this era of rising costs! A sterling engine always looks like a good fit for that: highly efficient, with no risk of a boiler ...

Apple has started sending some users push notifications warning that they have been targeted with specific malware. No specific information about the threat Apple detected is available. While ...

In this week’s episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by getting excited about the recently announced 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge. From there the ...

It’s often claimed that wearable devices cannot have user-replaceable batteries or even be serviceable at all due to how ...

Cricut Maker in an e-waste disposal. A quick scan over the device indicated it was in moderately good condition, with merely some perished rollers to contend with. The ...

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

Sometimes you see a project just staring at you with proverbial puppy dog eyes and you just cannot look away. In the case of ...

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 ...