PCBs the Prehistoric Way When we see an extremely DIY project, you always get someone who jokes “well, you didn’t collect sand and grow your own silicon”. [Patrícia J. Reis] and [Stefanie Wuschitz] did …read more #hacking #projects image
A New Generation of Spacecraft Head to the ISS While many in the industry were at first skeptical of NASA’s goal to put resupply flights to the International Space Station in the hands of commercial operators, the results speak …read more #hacking #projects image
Listening for the Next Wow! Signal with Low-Cost SDR As you might expect, the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has a fascination with radio signals from space. While doing research into the legendary “Wow! Signal” detected back in …read more #hacking #projects image
Give Your Band The Music Of The Bands The way to get into radio, and thence electronics, in the middle years of the last century, was to fire up a shortwave receiver and tune across the bands. In …read more #hacking #projects image
When Is Your Pyrex Not The Pyrex You Expect? It’s not often that Hackaday brings you something from a cooking channel, but [I Want To Cook] has a fascinating look at Pyrex glassware that’s definitely worth watching. If you …read more #hacking #projects image
Getting the Most out of ISM Transceivers Using Math WiFi is an excellent protocol, but it certainly has its weaknesses. Its range in even a normal home is relatively limited, so you could imagine the sort of performance you’d …read more #hacking #projects image
It’s A Variable Capacitor, But Not As We Know It Radio experimenters often need a variable capacitor to tune their circuits, as the saying goes, for maximum smoke. In decades past these were readily available from almost any scrap radio, …read more #hacking #projects image
Smooth! Non-Planar 3D Ironing Is 2025 finally the year of non-planar 3D printing? Maybe it won’t have to be if [Ten Tech] gets his way! Ironing is the act of going over the top …read more #hacking #projects image
FLOSS Weekly Episode 847: This is Networking This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Tom Herbert about XDP2! It’s the brand new framework for making networking really fast, making parsers really simple, and making hardware network acceleration …read more #hacking #projects image
Forgotten Internet: The Story of Email It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and the desk clerk says, “Ah, Mr. Barker, there’s a letter …read more #hacking #projects image