Hackaday Europe 2025 is in full swing, and whether you’re experiencing it live in Berlin or following along from home, here’s where you’ll find all the info you need to get the most out of it. Event Page: https://hackaday.io/europe2025 Chat: Hackaday Discord (Channels: europe-2025 / badge-hacking) Talk Streams: https://www.youtube.com/@hackaday/streams
With inexpensive microntrollers capable of the most impressive feats of sound synthesis, it’s not so often we see projects that return to an earlier style of electronic music project. The 1-bit synth from [Electroagenda] takes us firmly into that territory, employing that most trusty of circuits, a 555. It’s a time-honored circuit, a 555 provides […]
[Project 326] has a cheap thermal camera that plugs into a smart phone. Sure they are handy, but what if you could hack one into a microscope with a resolution measured in microns? It is easier than you might think and you can see how in the video below. Of course, microscopes need lenses, but […]
From the styling of this article’s title, some might assume that the Hackaday editors are asleep at the switch this fine day. While that might be true — it’s not our turn to watch them — others will recognize this tortured phrasing as one way to use the 1,000 most commonly used words in the […]
In a move that will absolutely not over-excite anyone, nor lead to any heated arguments, [needleful] posits that their C Plus Prolog (C+P for short) programming language is the best possible language ever. This is due to it combining the best of the only good programming language (Prolog) with the best of the only useful […]
Hackers enjoy a good theme, and so it comes as no surprise that every time March 14th (Pi Day) rolls around, the tip line sees an uptick in mathematical activity. Whether it’s something they personally did or some other person’s project they want to bring to our attention, a lot of folks out there are […]
Elliot does the podcast on the road to Supercon Europe, and Al is in the mood for math and nostalgia this week. Listen in and find out what they were reading on Hackaday this week. The guys talked about the ESP-32 non-backdoor and battery fires. Then it was on to the hacks. Self-balancing robots and […]
Pi Day is here! We bet that you know that famous constant to a few decimal points, and you could probably explain what it really means: the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. But what about the constant e? Sure, you might know it is a transcendental number around 2.72 or so. You […]
Geothermal heat is a tantalizing source of energy that’s quite literally right below our feet. At the same time geothermal energy is hard to develop as the Earth’s crust is too thick in most places, limiting this to areas where magma is close enough to the surface and the underground rock permeable enough for water. […]
We would be remiss if we didn’t address the X Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that’s been happening this week. It seems like everyone is is trying to make political hay out of the DDoS, but we’re going to set that aside as much as possible and talk about the technical details. Elon made […]