BEESAT-1 is a 1U cubesat launched in 2009 by the Technical University of Berlin. Like all good satellites, it has redundant ...

This is Crater75, an almost completely from-scratch row-staggered wireless split board that [United_Parfait_6383] has been ...

A lot of the projects we feature here on Hackaday engender the classic “build versus buy” argument. We’ve always been puzzled ...

Over the years, dedicated gamers have created incredible recreations of real (and not so real) locations and structures ...

One of the blockbuster talks at last year’s Chaos Communications Congress covered how a group of hackers discovered code that ...

We all take Ethernet and its ubiquitous RJ-45 connector for granted these days. But Ethernet didn’t start with twisted pair cable. [Mark] and [Ben] at The Serial Port YouTube channel are ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became ...

We’re covering two weeks of news today, which is handy, because the week between Christmas and New Years is always a bit slow ...

Let’s think of the last time you sent data without wires. We’re not talking WiFi here, but plain optical signals. Free-space ...

We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred ...

If you’re into building large projects, you’ll eventually find yourself looking at wire rope. Multistrand steel wire used as antenna guy wires, bridge supports, and plenty of other ...