4+ hour, 20+ min ago  (443+ words) Retort'Hackaday Cooking with charcoal is a fairly common human activity, as much as others have come to prefer fuels like propane and propane accessories for their outdoor, summertime grilling. Although it's made from wood, it has properties that make it…...

7+ hour, 23+ min ago  (342+ words) On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent laptop computer. If so, why not just add on a…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (748+ words) Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they cover their favorite hacks and stories from the week. The episode kicks off with some updates about Hackaday Europe and the recently announc... Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (266+ words) Building A Robot Partner To Play Air Hockey With'Hackaday Air hockey is one of those sports that's both incredibly fun, but also incredibly frustrating as playing it by yourself is a rather lonely and unfulfilling experience This is where an…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (204+ words) Visual Positioning System'Hackaday Released in 2016, Pokemon Go quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Even folks who weren't traditionally interested in the monster-taming franchise were wandering around with their smartphones out, on the hunt for virtual creatures that would appear via augmented…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (469+ words) Classic Mac OS was prized for its clean, accessible GUI when it first hit the scene in the 1980s. Back then, developers hadn't even conceived of all the weird gewgaws that would eventually be shoehorned into modern operating systems, least of…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1302+ words) So it should be no suprise that when [ETA Prime] plugs it into a monitor (using USB-C, natch) he's able to do all the usual computational tasks without trouble. A big part of that is the desktop mode Samsung phones…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (286+ words) Debugging an application crash can oftentimes feel like you're an intrepid detective in a grimy noir detective story, tasked with figuring out the sordid details behind an ugly crime. Slogging through... Debugging an application crash can oftentimes feel like you're…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (731+ words) Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power strips to run them all? [Jeroen Brinkman] made his more controllable with a multi-way switch box. At first sight it's…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (251+ words) Arduino's New AI-Centric Board Is The VENTUNO Q'Hackaday There have been many questions about what direction Arduino would take after being bought by Qualcomm. Now it would seem that we're getting a clearer picture. Perhaps unsurprisingly the answer appears to…...