Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, ...

We often think of analog computing as a relic of the past, room-sized monstrosities filled with vacuum tubes doing their best ...

We’ve certainly seen people take a photo of a part, bring it into CAD, and then scale it until some dimension on the screen is the same as a known dimension of the part. We like what [Scale ...

The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the most (in)famous entries. Designed from the ground up to be as cheap ...

In the driving simulator community, setups can quickly grow ever more complicated and expensive, all in the quest for fidelity. For [CNCDan], rather than buy pedals off the shelf, he opted to ...

If you have seen Star Wars, you know what is being referenced here. Holochess appeared as a diversion built into the Millennium Falcon in the very first movie, way back in 1977. While not quite as ...

Detecting a signal pulse is usually basic electronics, but you start to find more complications when you need to time the ...

Dan Maloney and I were talking on the podcast about his memories of the old electronics magazines, and how they had some ...

Oligo has announced the AirBorne series of vulnerabilities in the Apple Airdrop protocol and SDK. This is a particularly ...

Once upon a time, typing “www” at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these days, most of us go straight to “hackaday.com” without bothering with ...

Not all clamp meters are the same, and this video shows just that. In a recent teardown by [Kerry Wong], the new Fnirsi ...

It might seem strange to people like us, but normal people hate wires. Really hate wires. A lot. So it makes sense that with ...