The Longest Ever Flight Was Over 64 Days In A Cessna 172

Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay aloft …read more

In Search Of The First Comment

Are you writing your code for humans or computers? I wasn’t there, but my guess is that at the dawn of computing, people thought that they were writing for the …read more

Retrotechtacular: This 15th-Century Siege Cannon Might Kill You Instead Of The Target

For a happy weekend away in early September, I joined a few of my continental friends for the NewLine event organised by Hackerspace Gent in Belgium. You may have seen …read more

This Week In Security: Argentina, MysterySnail, And L0phtcrack

The government of Argentina has a national ID card system, and as a result maintains a database containing data on every citizen in the country. What could possibly go wrong? …read more

The Incredible Tech Of The Vacuum-Seal Flask

I recently started using a 50-year-old vacuum-seal flask that belonged to my Grandpa so that I don’t have to leave the dungeon as often to procure more caffeine. Besides looking …read more

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Being Green, It’s A Rich Man’s Game

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By Jenny List | October 26, 2021

It’s an old saying with an apocryphal origin: “May you live in interesting times“. We Brits are certainly living in interesting times at the moment, as a perfect storm of …read more
This Really Really Is Your Last Chance To Enter The 2021 Hackaday Prize (Really!)

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By Mike Szczys | October 26, 2021

Oh, walnuts! How can we already be at the end of the last round? 2021 has been a time warp and now we are staring down the final day to …read more
Spider-Man Swings A Little Closer To Reality

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By Matthew Carlson | October 26, 2021

Despite reading Hackaday daily and seeing the incredible things that people do, something comes along that just sort of blows you away every once in a while. Sometimes it’s just …read more
Classic 80s Text-To-Speech On Classic 80s Hardware

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By Bryan Cockfield | October 26, 2021

Those of us who were around in the late 70s and into the 80s might remember the Speak & Spell, a children’s toy with a remarkable text-to-speech synthesizer. While it …read more
Surf Sensor Adds Depth To Finding The Ultimate Wave

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By Ryan Flowers | October 25, 2021

To say that the ocean is a dynamic environment would be a gross understatement, especially when coastlines are involved. Waves crash, tides go in and out, and countless variables make …read more
Building A Water Rocket That Lands Via Parachute

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By Lewin Day | October 25, 2021

Water rockets are plenty of fun, but they can be even more fun if you go wild with the engineering. [The Q] is one such experimenter, who built a dual-thrust …read more
Drawing Robot Creates Portraits Using Pen, Paper And Algorithms

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By Robin Kearey | October 25, 2021

Although the market for hand-drawn portraits largely collapsed following the invention of photography, there’s something magical about watching an artist create a lifelike image using nothing but a pencil, some …read more

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