1+ hour, 50+ min ago If you've ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you'll know that when it starts up, it will look at its program memory for something to do. "read more If you've ever experimented with a microprocessor at…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago [Hackaday Links Column Banner]It's amazing how fragile our digital lives can be, and how quickly they can fall to pieces. Case in point: the digital dilemma that Paris Buttfield-Addison found himself in last "read more As for why the…...

7+ hour, 50+ min ago 3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part" except that every other technique you could use to make that part is "read more 3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago A lot of claims have been made about the purported benefits of adding chopped carbon fiber to FDM filaments, but how many of these claims are actually true? In the "read more A lot of claims have been made about…...

13+ hour, 51+ min ago [A browser window is shown, in which a web page is displaying a green trace of a square wave.]An oscilloscope is usually the most sensitive, and arguably most versatile, tool on a hacker's workbench, often taking billions of samples…...

16+ hour, 50+ min ago Polaroid cameras have been very popular for a very long time and are especially hot gifts this year. Fresh film is easy to find but relatively expensive. In contrast, Fuji's "read more Polaroid cameras have been very popular for a…...

19+ hour, 50+ min ago There are few things more American than driving a car really fast in a straight line. Occasionally, the cars will make a few left turns, but otherwise, this is the "read more There are few things more American than driving…...

22+ hour, 50+ min ago For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on "read more For most of us who are not astronomers,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago [A device within a vertical rectangular frame is shown, with a control box on the front and an LCD display. Within the frame, a grid of syringes is seen held upright beneath two parallel plates.]One major reason for the…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago The "Marauder's Map" is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn't real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn't need to be " we have technology, and we can make our own magic…...