For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next best way to make sure the correct time is known is with the WWVB … ...

Modern computers generate a great deal of heat when under load, thus we cool them with fans and sometimes even water cooling systems. [Doug MacDowell] figured that water was alright, but why not ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...

An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet ...

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself ...

On an old fashioned bench a signal generator was once an indispensable instrument, but has now largely been supplanted by the ...

Lightning is a powerful force, one seemingly capable of great destruction in the right circumstances. It announces itself ...

The wait is over — once this post hits the front page, ticket sales for the 2025 Hackaday Supercon will officially be live!

Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We ...