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 ...

The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of ...

Love it or hate it, Vim, the vi-compatible minimalist editor, is a common denominator between a huge array of operating ...

Optical media may be dead for video games on the big corporate consoles, but not in [Emmet]’s heart– or on his DIY game ...

The events of the last few years have caused many in Europe to re-evaluate their reliance on large offshore technology ...

What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This ...

The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a few decades ago. And, ...

Despite all the glamorous promises made about quantum computing, it’s hard to make the argument that today’s quantum ...

Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such ...

Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a ...

Although we often think that we got certain aspects of aerodynamics pretty much licked at this point, details like the ...

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 ...