You don’t have to be a full-on “prepper” to at least occasionally wonder what would happen if civilization collapsed. One ...

Although the term ‘quantum battery’ is a bit of a vague term, the cell that [Kieran Hymas] et al. demonstrate in a recent ...

Although e-paper displays are famous for being low-power and lasting essentially forever if not damaged physically, the ...

Upcycling smartphones makes a lot of sense, especially since they contain so many components that remain useful long after ...

Although not technically the first virtual pet, the Tamagotchi handhelds certainly popularized the idea and made it a ...

Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V architecture is slowly supplanting applications that would ...

If you’ve got an MX-style keyboard and want some retro charm, you might like a recent project from [Levente Szabadkai]. It’s ...

The Pokéwalker is a gadget that was sold alongside the Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver games for the Nintendo DS which players could use to take a Pokémon out on a walk in the real world. Not only ...

We’re big fans of pushing hardware into situations it wasn’t designed for here at Hackaday, but sometimes you’ve got to ...

In the open source world we are used to software being compiled from source for our particular distro, so while in a few ...

The humble credit card reader — most of us have used hundreds, perhaps even thousands of them over the years. But even for ...

Having watched some fun videos on repurposed satellite dishes on YouTube, [Melan] wanted to get in on the action. She managed ...