Sir Clive Sinclair and his company were notorious for pushing the limits of electronic parts in search of a low price, and ...

The idea of painting a roof or wall white in order to reflect sunshine and keep the building’s insides cool is hardly a new ...

Few pieces of vintage audio gear from the turn of the century (the previous one) inspire the kind of devotion that a Leslie ...

Large prints have a risk of warping, by which we mean corners can lift off the print bed as the object sort of curls inward ...

If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could increase the ...

A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors. The ...

Oftentimes, when we’re using a microcontroller, we’re whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task. The device is set up to execute code that does exactly ...

Making a radio is so often a case of taking tried and tested designs and working with them to create something new. It’s a ...

Over the time Hackaday has been in existence, the art of 3D printing has evolved from a relatively crude hit-and-miss affair ...

Disk Defragmenter was a wonderful utility that Microsoft included with Windows back in the day. Back then, you’d use it to ...

Modern heat pumps, of which air conditioners are a subset, seem like simple machines in theory. They just move heat from one ...

There’s plenty of substances that can theoretically be extruded from a nozzle, but only a regrettably small subset of them ...