A dog may be man’s best friend, but many of us live with cats, fish, iguanas, or even wilder animals. And naturally, we like to share our hacks with our pets. Whether it’s a robot ball-thrower, a ...

It’s been a good 2025 so far! I just got back from Chaos Communication Congress, which is easily my favorite gigantic hacker conference of the year. (Partisan Hackaday pride puts Supercon up as my ...

Nobody likes power cords, and batteries always need recharging or replacing. What if your device could run on only the power ...

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s ...

Lifelong learning through play; Toy-building as a means to skillset growth; Sources of inspiration and getting new ideas; and What sorts of projects Greg has in the pipeline. You are, of course, ...

You see it all the time in science fiction: the heroes find old data, read it, and learn how to save the day. But how realistic is that? Forget aliens. Could you read a stack of punch cards or a ...

In the last two articles, I talked about two systems relying on audio notifications. The first one is the Alt-Tab annihilator system – a system making use of my window monitoring code to angrily beep ...

The site is called Hackaday, and has been for 21 years. But it was only for maybe the first half-year that it was literally a hack a day. By the 2010s, we were putting out four or more per day, and in ...

Join us on Wednesday, July 15 at noon Pacific for the Back to Basics Hack Chat with Simplifier! Stay in the technology business long enough and eventually you’ll have to face an uncomfortable question ...