It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and ...

Raspberry Pi clusters have been a favorite project of homelabbers and distributed computing enthusiasts since the platform ...

Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We ...

A while back [Clint Basinger] of Lazy Game Reviews fame purchased a rare 1980s Halikan laptop. When he received the parcel, ...

Over the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to ...

Algorithms? Datamining? Brainrot? You don’t need those things to have a social network. As we knew back in the BBS days, long before anyone coined the phrase “social network”, ...

Video games, movies, and modern militaries are all full of robotic gun turrets that allow for remotely-controlled carnage.

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The Hackaday 2025 Component Abuse Challenge is all about abusing electronic components in the service of making them do ...

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and ...

Miroslav Hancar] wasn’t satisfied with abusing just a single component for our Component Abuse Challenge. He decided to abuse ...