Folding wings have a long history in aviation. Particularly in the military world, where the ability to fit more fighting ...

Flash is obsolete and the IBM 5150 is obsolete. Therefore, by the transitive property of algebra, you should be able to run ...

If there’s one category among those we see here at Hackaday that has something for everyone, it’s retrocomputing. Spanning ...

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, ...

The Amazon Echo Dot is one of Amazon’s so-called ‘smart speaker’ offerings that tie into their larger Alexa-fueled ecosystem, ...

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this ...

Many of us will have followed the early history of electronic computing, from the urgent necessities of war, to universities, and then on into the wider world. Most of the firsts in that field are ...

The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out how to set it up as a ...

It seems fair to say that semiconductor technology has been one of the most influential inventions in human history.

Although not very glamorous, wax motors are a fairly common type of linear actuator. They use the thermal response of waxes ...

One of the easiest ways of improving security and privacy when using the Internet, and computers in general, is to use strong ...

If you wanted to make a game that ran on a commodity microcontroller, you could be forgiven for not knowing where to start.