Although not very glamorous, wax motors are a fairly common type of linear actuator. They use the thermal response of waxes ...

It seems fair to say that semiconductor technology has been one of the most influential inventions in human history.

If there’s one category among those we see here at Hackaday that has something for everyone, it’s retrocomputing. Spanning ...

One of the easiest ways of improving security and privacy when using the Internet, and computers in general, is to use strong ...

Given the modern trend of interconnecting anything and everything, we have no doubt that somebody sells a blood pressure ...

Automatic cat feeders are a dime a dozen, largely because this is an easy problem to solve. Dry cat food is easy for machines ...

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, and it hasn’t spread as well as some others. But it was the first OO language ...

If you’ve got an MX-style keyboard and want some retro charm, you might like a recent project from [Levente Szabadkai]. It’s a set of C64-style keycaps that you can print yourself at home! The project ...

Airborne micro particles can be a significant health hazard in a workshop, and thus it’s important to maintain a high standard of ventilation. But monitoring their concentration is also important, and ...

Many readers will be familiar with Douglas Englebart’s 1968 so-called “Mother of All Demos”, in which he described many of the devices and technologies we would be using two or three decades later.

One of the interesting things about the slow-moving AI apocalypse we seem to be trapped in is watching the knock-on effects reverberate through communities and economies. We’ve seen how ...