If you wanted to make a game that ran on a commodity microcontroller, you could be forgiven for not knowing where to start.

The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out how to set it up as a ...

Although the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (F-T synthesis) process is well-known and on face value quite straightforward, using ...

Palm OS, an operating system for a range mobile devices that predated mobile phones, is largely forgotten today. Or at least, ...

If you’ve ever wondered about the planes flying above your head, you could always listen in to ADS-B transmissions to learn ...

If you’re a big retro tech fan, you might still have a floppy drive on hand, or even some sort of high-end disk imaging solution. If you’re a little less committed, you may still have ...

We announced our first round of speakers, and then the workshops, and we were going to dribble out updates on the rest of the ...

We’re less than a week away from the 2026 Hackaday Supercon, and things are getting a little… intense. So we trust you’ll forgive us if this week’s post weighs in a bit ...

Sometimes an STL file needs a bit of editing, but if one doesn’t already know how to use a mesh editor it’s unlikely that one ...

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this ...

Bridges! We kind of expect them to just be there and do their job, ad infinitum. They are built into the landscape, and we ...

Many readers will be familiar with Douglas Englebart’s 1968 so-called “Mother of All Demos”, in which he described many of ...