Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good power supply design, start ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...

Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself ...

If you’re hunting for a bench power supply, you’ll quickly notice options dry up above 48 V or so, and you definitely won’t find a 330 kV supply on the shelf at your local electronics shop. But ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...

Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. [Erich Styger] has, ...

It’s a well-known factoid that batteries keep getting cheaper while capacity increases. That said, as with any market that is ...

Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the Selectric typewriter line. [James Brown] has now leveraged that very concept ...

Modern computers generate a great deal of heat when under load, thus we cool them with fans and sometimes even water cooling ...

An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet ...

In FDM 3D printing cycles TPU is a bit of a special filament. Not so much because of its properties, but because it’s rather stretchy even as a filament, which makes especially printing ...

Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the dirty laundry into the machine, fill up the detergent, and let the ...