With us chafing at time zones and daylight saving time (DST) these days, it can be easy to forget how much more confusing things were in the late 19th century. Back then few areas had synchronized ...

Frequency! It’s an important thing to measure, which is why [Jacques Pelletier] built a frequency counter some time ago. The four-function unit is humble, capable, and also an entry into our ...

When film all came in rolls, it was fairly easy to play with the frame of the image. Companies like Hasselblad (and many others) made camera backs that would expose longer strips of 35 mm film to ...

Sometimes, there are too many choices in this world. My benchtop function generator can output a sine, square, or saw wave ...

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

Sometimes, we’re faced with what should be simple household tasks that we choose to make more difficult. Sure, you could buy ...

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

In the formative experiences of most Hackaday readers there will almost certainly be a number of common threads, for example ...

We don’t know if picking blackberries at scale is something people enjoy doing. But if you do, we have bad news. The University of Arkansas wants to put you out of a job in favor of your new ...

Over on his YouTube channel the vivacious [Stephen Hawes] tells us that we never need to buy solder stencils again! A big ...

In the retrocomputing world, [DosDude1] is a name spoken with more than a little respect. He’s back again with a long-awaited ...

We’ve been loving the variety of entries to the 2025 One-Hertz Challenge. Many a clock has been entered, to be sure, but also ...