One fascinating thing about a pulsed laser is that, though the average power may be measured in watts or milliwatts, the peak ...

When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy.

If you saw a device that had a laptop form factor playing sound and video, alt-tabbing over to play a game or take some notes ...

When you look into the night sky, you can’t help but wish to bring the outer worlds to your doorstep. One of the best ways to ...

It’s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly — or not so slowly — creeping up over the years. Does a simple ...

If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 ...

Every magnet has a north and a south pole, but which is which? Sometimes it matters. If a product one builds features a magnetic closure or other part, the polarity of those magnets should be ...

It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in our solar system ...

Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB. Professionally-made stencils are cut from ...

Unless it’s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isn’t exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to see on Hackaday. Be that as it may, the bountiful crop of ...

In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After ...

If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. We’d bet good money most of you would quit your jobs today if a Starfleet recruiter showed up. That’s ...