For this year’s Hackaday Prize, we’re doing something special. We’re introducing achievements for Prize projects. Think of them as merit badges. If your Hackaday Prize project has multiple parts that ...

Ah, the joy of summer storms. A recent one involving a flooded basement (a torrential downpour traveled down a chipmunk burrow that led to an otherwise enclosed basement window with a broken ...

What we are going to do is design a simple 4-bit computer at the primitive logic gate and flip-flop level and then implement it in the technology of our choice I’ve often wondered what would happen if ...

Almost exactly two years ago, Google achieved so-called quantum supremacy -- a "hello world" moment, in the words of the company's CEO Sundar Pichai, that made waves in the field and brought quantum ...

The main goals for this educational computer for kids are to keep it simple and keep it entertaining (also, it has to look Steampunk) As I mentioned in my “High-Tech, Low-Tech, No-Tech” column, I ...

The Kano Computer Kit Complete is designed to offer children and families an affordable way to get some hands-on experience building a computer. Available to pre-order now with a price tag of $250, ...

I'm looking to build a new gaming machine for the first time in over 8 years soon, but looking around it looks like a whole lot of components are covered in LEDs now. I'm not going to judge other ...

IBM, one of the world’s oldest tech companies, is building a refrigerator. That, in itself, is not unprecedented. Other tech companies have built fridges before. LG sells the impressive ...

The UK's splashing the cash for its next quantum purchase: the science minister Amanda Solloway has announced the country's very first commercial quantum computer, backed by a £10 million ($13.36 ...

Our hacker from [Appalachian Forge Works] wrote in to let us know about their vending machine build: a Halloween vending computer that talks. He starts by demonstrating the vending process: a backlit ...