It is no secret that we like slide rules around the Hackaday bunker, and among our favorites are the cylindrical slide rules.

The advent of affordable computing over the last few decades has certainly been a boon for many people with disabilities, ...

With few exceptions, amateur radio is a notably sedentary pursuit. Yes, some hams will set up in a national or state park for ...

What could happen when you open-source a hardware project? No, seriously. I hold a fair few radical opinions – one is that ...

Jonathan and Rob chat with Nate Graham about KDE! Why did Nate walk away from Apple, and how did he find Linux and KDE? And ...

Distortion pedals and overdrive effects usually have a bunch of lovely transistors or op-amps inside and lots of knobs and dials to tweak the sound to your personal taste. However, it’s ...

For some people (e.g. this author) solder wick is a tool of last resort. Unfortunately, solder suckers and vacuum pumps lose most of their utility when you move from through-hole to SMD ...

We’re suckers for a vintage electronic teardown here at Hackaday, and thus it’s pleasing to see [Thomas Scherrer OZ2CPU] with a 1962 AEG oscilloscope on his bench. It’s ...

There are plenty of audio mixers on the market, and the vast majority all look the same. If you wanted something different, ...

Growing up as a kid in the 1990s was an almost magical time. We had the best game consoles, increasingly faster computers at ...

Adding textures is a great way to experiment with giving 3D prints a different look, and [PandaN] shows off a method of adding a wood grain effect in a way that’s easy to play around with.

When you think of open-source hardware, you probably think of electronics and maker tools– RepRap, Arduino, Adafruit, et ...