Cycloidal drives are a type of speed reducer that are significantly more compact than gearboxes, but they still come with a ...

There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking. [ETA Prime] on ...

Hacks are of all ages, with the Victorian-era Claymills Pumping Station being no exception. When its old Lancashire boilers ...

Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter ...

The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the ...

Most end tables that you might find in a home are relatively static objects. However, [Peter Waldraff] of Tiny World Studios ...

Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law, requiring among other things that operating system providers implement an API for age verification purposes.

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...

There’s a meme which may have a basis in truth, of a teenager left clueless when presented with a rotary telephone. The dial, in reality a mechanical pulse chain generator, was once ...

You’ve got to be ambitious to target a legend. If there’s one thing the folks at Hermeus Aerospace are, though, it’s ...

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery ...

During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation ...