Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you’d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alaska. If you were to spend a night camping out in ...

Chaos Communication Congress. He had an awesome time, saw more projects than you might think humanely possible, and got the flu. But he ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better ...

The 39th annual Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) is underway, and it kicked off with a talk that will resonate deeply with ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) forms the bridge between the analog world of paper and the world of machines. The ...

This week the Hackaday Podcast is on vacation, but we’d like to wish you all happy holidays and a great 2026.  Thanks for tuning in!  We’ll be back next week. This wasn’t a real ...

There are all kinds of fun, glowing PC cases on the market these days. However, if you want something that focuses on ...

It’s amazing how fragile our digital lives can be, and how quickly they can fall to pieces. Case in point: the digital dilemma that Paris Buttfield-Addison found himself in last week, which denied him ...

D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part– except that every other technique you could use to make that part is too slow and/or expensive, making the ...

It’s amazing how fragile our digital lives can be, and how quickly they can fall to pieces. Case in point: the digital dilemma that Paris Buttfield-Addison found himself in last week, which denied him ...

There are a lot of options for local weather stations; most of them, however, are sensors tied to a base station, often requiring an internet connection to access all features. [Vinnie] over at ...

In a recent video, [Andrew Zonenberg] takes us through the process of decapsulating a PIC12F683 to take a peek at its CMOS implementation. This is a multipart series with five parts done and more to ...