Launched in 2004, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory – formerly the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer – has been dutifully studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) during its two-year mission, ...

D prints destined for presentation need smooth surfaces, and that usually means sanding. [Uncle Jessy] came across an idea he decided to try out for himself: spraying Bondo spot putty onto a 3D ...

One of the interesting things about Prusa’s FDM 3D printers is the availability of official upgrade kits, which allow you to combine bits off an older machine with those of the target ...

The Nintendo 64 was an amazing video game console, and alongside consoles like the Sony PlayStation, helped herald in the era of 3D games. That said, it was new hardware, with new development tools, ...

Have you ever been out and about and needed to make a check against INT, WIS or CON but not had a die handy? Sure, you could ...

As you can probably imagine, we get tips on a lot of really interesting projects here at Hackaday. Most are pretty serious, at least insofar as they aim to solve a specific problem in some new and ...

The April 1926 issue of “Science and Invention” had a fascinating graphic. It explained, for the curious, how a photo of a ...

Having a charger installed at home for your electric car is very convenient, not only for the obvious home charging, but also ...

Modern multi-material printers certainly have their advantages, but all that purging has a way to add up to oodles of waste.

It’s likely that many of you use some form of CAD package, but how many of you have decided you didn’t like the software on offer? [Marcus Wu] did, and instead of griping, he wrote his ...

Do you like writing software for Android, perhaps even sideload the occasional APK onto your Android device? In that case some big changes are heading your way, with Google announcing that they ...

When [upir] saw that you could buy tire valve stem caps that read pressure electronically, he decided to roll his own Tire ...