When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your ...

Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially ...

What should your first instinct be when the room catches on fire? Maybe get out of the room, pull an alarm, and have a disco ...

We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers ...

During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor ...

Three-axis 3D printing has been with us long enough that everybody knows the limitations, but so far, adding extra axes has been very much a niche endeavor. [Daniel] at Fractal Robotics wants to ...

The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it as the beating heart of so many famous 8-bit machines from the likes of ...

It should come as no surprise that the hacker community has embraced the Meshtastic project. It’s got a little bit of ...

A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and ...

We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics at ...

Fermentation is a culinary art where tiny organisms transform simple ingredients into complex flavors — but they’re finicky ...

The Apple II was made in great numbers, as was the Commodore 64. But the Mimic Spartan? It was a weird Apple II clone that you needed a Commodore 64 to use. [ARC Javmaster] has found one of these ...