What should your first instinct be when the room catches on fire? Maybe get out of the room, pull an alarm, and have a disco ...

We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers ...

During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor ...

The Apple II was made in great numbers, as was the Commodore 64. But the Mimic Spartan? It was a weird Apple II clone that you needed a Commodore 64 to use. [ARC Javmaster] has found one of these ...

We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics at ...

Guitar Hero was all the rage for a few years, before the entire world apparently got sick of it overnight. Some diehards still remember the charms of rhythm games, though. Among them you might ...

A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and ...

Fermentation is a culinary art where tiny organisms transform simple ingredients into complex flavors — but they’re finicky ...

Before the era of large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductor circuits, discrete logic circuits using the common ...

BornHack is a week-long summer hacker camp in a forest on the Danish island of Fyn, that consistently delivers a very ...

Keeping retrocomputers going can be tricky enough, but when you’re talking retro laptops, the battery packs add an extra ...

As Earthlings, most of us don’t spend a lot of extra time thinking about the gravity on our home planet. Instead, we go about ...