2023 Hackaday Prize: Meet the Ten Re-Engineering Education Finalists
They say time flies when you’re having fun, and doubly so when you’re hacking hardware. If you can believe it, we’ve already closed out the first challenge of the 2023
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Vintage Computer Festival East was a Retro Madhouse
The Vintage Computer Festival East took place last weekend at the InfoAge Science and History Museum in New Jersey, and by any metric you care to use, it was a
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Signed Distance Functions: Modeling in Math
What if instead of defining a mesh as a series of vertices and edges in a 3D space, you could describe it as a single function? The easiest function would
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The Real John Wick-Style Bullet Proof Suit
If you’ve seen the John Wick movies, you’ve probably had to suspend your disbelief about many things, but the bulletproof suits are perhaps the hardest thing to swallow. They look
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Why A Community Hackerspace Should Be A Vital Part Of Being An Engineering Student
Travelling the continent’s hackerspaces over the years, I have visited quite a few spaces located in university towns. They share a depressingly common theme, of a community hackerspace full of
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Working with BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, and Rework
In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA package. But designing
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NASA Lunar Probe Finds Out it’s Not Easy Being Green
If you’re a space fan, these are very exciting days. There’s so much happening overhead that sometimes it can be difficult to keep up with the latest news. Artemis I
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2022: As The Hardware World Turns
Well folks, we made it through another one. While it would be a stretch to call 2022 a good year for those of us in the hacking and making community,
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New Venue Gives Philly Maker Faire a Fresh Start
When we last checked in with the Philadelphia Maker Faire in 2019, one couldn’t help but be impressed with what the organizers had pulled off with just a fraction of
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Leading Edge Erosion: When Precipitation Destroys Wind Turbine Blades
Erosion is all around us, from the meandering course of rivers and other waterways, to the gradual carving out of channels in even the toughest mountains, and the softening of
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