Arkandas] had a problem. They liked reading in bed, but their bedroom lamps weren’t cutting it—either too bright and direct, ...

Do you use a spell checker? We’ll guess you do. Would you use a button that just said “correct all spelling errors in ...

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

Despite being a readily-available source of useful plastic, massive numbers of disposable bottles go to waste every day. To ...

The Tea app has had a rough week. It’s not an unfamiliar story: Unsecured Firebase databases were left exposed to the ...

Another week, another Hackaday podcast, and for this one Elliot is joined by Jenny List, fresh from the BornHack hacker camp ...

When a tipster came to us with the line “One dollar BASIC computer”, it intrigued us enough to have a good look at [Stan6314] ...

Do you like buses, or do you just like the flippy-flappy displays they use to show route information? Either way, you’ll ...

Universal control is a neat feature on Macintosh computers, allowing you to slide your mouse seamlessly from device to device. Of course you need a relatively recent version of MacOS to make it ...

Once upon a time, you could buy floppy drive cleaning disks at just about any stationary or computer store. These days, they’re harder to find. If you want to build one yourself, though, you ...

Frequency! It’s an important thing to measure, which is why [Jacques Pelletier] built a frequency counter some time ago. The ...

Electric guitars are great, but they’re just so 20th century. You’d think decades of musicians riffing on the instrument would mean there are no hacks left in the humble axe.