Lego! It’s a fun toy that is popular around the world. What you may not realize is that it’s also made to incredibly high ...

It’s usually not a good sign when your downloaded theme contains obfuscated code. Yes, we’re talking about the very popular ...

Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up in a secret location with snacks to bring you the latest news, mystery ...

Nickel contamination can render soils infertile at levels that are currently impractical to treat. Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel for ...

Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to ...

River tables are something we’ve heard decried as a passé, but we’re still seeing some interesting variations on the technique. Take this example done with bronze instead of epoxy.

If you’ve ever seen those cheap LED fiber optic wands at the dollar store, you’ve probably just thought of them as a simple novelty. However, as [Ancient] shows us, you can turn them ...

Shopping carts are surprisingly expensive. Prices range up to about $300 for a cart, which may seem like a lot, but they have to be pretty rugged and are made to work for decades. Plastic carts ...

Gonzo journalism has been a hip thing since the 1970s or so, a way of covering a story in a compelling format with more subjectivity and less objectivity. The style has since been applied to all ...

Kelly Coffield] makes intake manifolds for old Ford throttle bodies for fun, demonstrating an excellent technique for making such things in the small shop. The mould patterns are CNC machined ...

Over the years there have been many different audio amplifier designs which have found favour for a while and then been ...

Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in the lab, but often have fatal stress ...