5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (383+ words) Hackaday The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– your smartphone We’ve seen a number of…...

6+ day, 29+ min ago   (35+ words) As a certified RC airplane fan, the [RCMakerLab] on YouTube found themselves looking at one of those nifty mini air blowers that provide an alternative to a compressor and canned air for dusting and o......

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (199+ words) hackaday.com Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on the move with ease Unfortunately manufacturers were scared…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (258+ words) [Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse“, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s nothing IBM-compatible about the tiny ARM board he squeezes inside…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (37+ words) A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors. The bicycle retains the same basic design as it had in 1890, as does the sewin......

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (232+ words) hackaday.com Insides of the Sears 12 calculator (Credit: Danalog, YouTube) Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and complex mechanisms…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (36+ words) Disk Defragmenter was a wonderful utility that Microsoft included with Windows back in the day. Back then, you'd use it to theoretically speed up disk access. Today, you can run a fun simulation right......

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (186+ words) Hackaday The hope is always that a good business card will leave a good impression For those in the electronics field, they also serve as an opportunity to showcase creative design skills [Wilson Harper] demonstrates that ably with a rather…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (37+ words) Flip disc displays can be quite a task to drive, what with having some sort of actuator mechanism for each and every dot in the display. [Zimm] has built an altogether different kind of flip disc disp......

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (260+ words) Hackaday The world’s refusal to standardize on a single type of mains power outlet has led to a vibrant market of so-called travel adapters, all of which try to outdo each other in convenience and universality This comes at…...