Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to share their favorite hacks of the week with you. If you listen in, you’ll ...

When [Reit Tech] needed something to do with an old Nintendo Wii, he turned to Google. When the AI overview told him it could ...

When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One major cause of noise in CMOS sensors is heat—even small amounts can degrade the final ...

The tides! Such a unique thing, because on Earth, we don’t just have oceans full of liquid water—we also have a big ol’ moon called Moon to pull them around. You might like to keep ...

If you need to create a high vacuum, there are basically two options: turbomolecular pumps and diffusion pumps. Turbomolecular pumps require rotors spinning at many thousands of rotations per ...

Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader. Working with old-school gear can be tough, though, when documentation or supporting resources ...

Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or ...

Usually databases are treated primarily as fairly dumb data storage systems, but they can be capable of much more. Case in ...

Recently [Faith Ekstrand] announced on Mastodon that Mesa was updating its contributor guide. This follows a recent AI slop ...

You can use large language models for all sorts of things these days, from writing terrible college papers to bungling legal ...

Imagine you have a natural stream running through a low-lying area on your farm. It’s a great source of fresh water, only you really need it to irrigate some crops sitting at a higher ...

While William Rowan Hamilton isn’t a household name like, say, Einstein or Hawking, he might have been. It turns out the ...