[GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of ...

Media formats have come a long way since the early days of computing. Once upon a time, the very idea of even playing live ...

While plastics are very useful on their own, they can be much stronger when reinforced and mixed with a range of fibers. Not ...

There was a time when building a telescope was a rite of passage for budding astronomers, much as building a radio was the ...

Writing for Hackaday involves drinking from the firehose of tech news, and seeing the latest and greatest of new projects and ...

The Bluetooth SIG recently released the core specification for version 6.0 of Bluetooth. Compared to 5.x, it contains a ...

Michelle Hampson] reports in IEEE Spectrum that Chinese researchers may improve self-driving cars by mimicking how the human ...

Many have sought the holy grail of making commercial media both readable and copy-proof, especially once everyone began to ...

Although not the first to try and build a DIY solar-powered remote control airplane, [ProjectAir]’s recent attempt is the ...

As technology progresses, we generally expect processing capabilities to scale up. Every year, we get more processor power, ...

Battery management is a tedious but necessary problem that becomes more of a hassle with lithium-ion technology. As we’re all very aware, such batteries need a bit of care to be utilized safely ...

Switch-mode technology has made inverters which take a low DC voltage and turn it into a usable mains voltage within the reach of everybody. But still, there might be moments when a mains supply ...