The site is called Hackaday, and has been for 21 years. But it was only for maybe the first half-year that it was literally a hack a day. By the 2010s, we were putting out four or more per day, and in the later 20-teens, we settled into our current cadence of eight hacks per day, plus some original pieces over the top. Thatβs a lot of hacks per day! (But βEight-to-Ten-Hacks-a-Dayβ just isnβt as catchy.)
With that many posts daily, we also tend to reach out to a broader array of interests. Quite simply, not every hack is necessarily going to be just exactly what you are looking for, but we wouldnβt be writing it up if we didnβt think that someone was looking for it. Maybe you donβt like CAN bus hacks, but youβre into biohacking, or retrocomputing. Our broad group of writers helps to make sure that weβll get you covered sooner or later.
Whatβs still surprising to me, though, is that a couple of times per week, there is a hack that is actually relevant to a particular project that Iβm currently working on. Itβs one thing to learn something new every day, and Iβd bet that I do, but itβs entirely another to learn something new and relevant.
So I shouldnβt have been shocked when Tom and I were going over the weekβs hacks on the podcast, and he picked an investigation of injecting spray foam into 3D prints. I liked that one too, but for me it was just βlearn something newβ. Tom has been working on an underwater ROV, and it perfectly scratched an itch that he has β how to keep the top of the vehicle more buoyant, while keeping the whole thing waterproof.
That kind of experience is why Iβve been reading Hackaday for 21 years now, and itβs all of our hope that you get some of that too from time to time. There is a lot of βnewβ on the Internet, and thatβs a wonderful thing. But the combination of new and relevant just canβt be beat! So if youβve got anything you want to hear more about, let us know.
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Whatβs still surprising to me, though, is that a couple of times per week, there is a hack that is actually relevant to a particular project that Iβm currently working on. Itβs one thing to learn something new every day, and Iβd bet that I do, but itβs entirely another to learn something new and relevant.
