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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How Much Is That Shirt In The (Atmospheric) Window?

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By Kristina Panos | October 26, 2021

Summer is fading into a memory now, but as surely as the earth orbits the sun, those hot and sweaty days will return soon enough. And what can you do …read more
Smart Flower Pot Build Is All About That Base

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By Kristina Panos | October 26, 2021

For some reason, it seems like most of the plant monitoring setups we see separate the plant and the monitoring system. This makes sense in a don’t-own-a-waterbed-and-a-cat kind of way, …read more
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

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