A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, ...

On a Commodore 64, the computer is normally connected to a monitor with one composite video cable and to an audio device with ...

Like so many of us, [Liam] has a big problem. Whether it’s the curse of Brown Thumbs or something else, those darn houseplants just keep dying despite guides always telling you ...

It’s not unusual for redundant satellites, rocket stages, or other spacecraft to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere. Usually ...

Continuous glucose meters (CGMs) aren’t just widgets for the wellness crowd. For many, CGMs are real-time feedback machines ...

If you’ve only been around for the Internet age, you may not realize that Hackaday is the successor of electronics magazines.

Are you a developer or experimenter pondering options for text entry in virtual or mixed reality? If that’s the case (or ...

Don’t you love it when the title track is the first one on the album? I had to single out this adjustable keyboard called the Protractor, because look at it! The whole thing moves, you know.

The Star Trek tricorder was a good example of a McGuffin. It did anything needed to support the plot or, in some cases, ...

Modern micro-controllers are absolute marvels, but it isn’t too many projects use one and nothing else. For an example of such simplicity, take a look at [oyama]’s Pi Pico MIDI looper.

It was probably Montesquieu who coined the proto-hacker motto “the best is the mortal enemy of the good”. He was talking ...

It’s not really an understatement to say that over the years videocards (GPUs) — much like CPU coolers — have become rather ...