It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about their being ...

Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much ...

Continuing the restoration of the #1 Lancashire boiler at the Claymills Pumping Station in the UK, the volunteers are putting ...

Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding No Man’s Land, there was still active trade between the Soviet ...

It is a safe bet that nearly all Hackaday readers like to at least imagine what it would be like to build and live in an ...

Assembler syntax is a touchy subject, with many a flamewar having raged over e.g. Intel vs AT&T style syntax. Thus when [Humberto Costa] recently acquired an MSX system for some fun ...

Full-color 3D printing is something of a holy grail, if nothing else just because of how much it impresses the normies. We’ve ...

Some FDM filaments are pretty brittle even if properly dried and stored, especially those which contain carbon fiber (CF) or ...

Tic-Tac-Toe is a relatively simple game, and one of the few which has effectively been solved for perfect play. The nature of ...

Lego train sets have been available for decades, now. The Danish manufacturer long ago realized the magic of combining its ...

Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on a car from the ...

Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era ...