It sounds like a crackpot invention advertised on the back of an old comic book: DIY solar panels you plug into a standard wall outlet to pump electricity into your home. And yet they’re totally real, ...

The Professor reviews the world's simplest DIY, plug & play, beginner friendly all in one solar power system -- the ecoflow power KITS, after a full year in the lab! It's a complete solution for off ...

A software engineer explains how he set up a one-of-a-kind flight tracker in his home in under two hours via vibe coding.

Installed capacity crossed a new threshold as deployment scales across regions. The global solar tracker market reached 134 gigawatts direct current (GWdc) of shipments in 2025, rising 19% year on ...

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The team linked reports of eerie red auroras with spikes of carbon-14 trapped in ...

In this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off by taking a trip down the Raspberry Pi memory lane and then tackle a fresh pile of listener mail. The discussion moves on ...

Researchers designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by the sun. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have ...

If an AI notices you, does that count as being “seen”? It’s a question many of us will have to answer sooner or later, when the billionaires start shoving AI companions down our throats as ...

At 3.30 in the afternoon on May 21, India registered its highest-ever power demand, of more than 270 GW. It was a day when most of north, west and central India was seeing heatwaves, during which ...

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...

While there is a time and place for wirelessly controlled devices, sometimes you want something you can just reach out and ...