When we were all little kids, our earliest “science is cool” discoveries usually revolve around magnets. After all, everyone had a magnet or two lying around their house. For that kid in us all, the ...

Sometimes Hackaday runs in closed-loop mode: one hacker makes something, we post it, another hacker sees it and makes something else, and we post it, spiraling upward to cooler and cooler hacks. This ...

[Jacob] has put a slightly new twist on the levitating ball trick with his ping-pong ball levitation machine. We’ve all seen magnetic levitation systems before. Here on Hackaday, [Caleb] built a ...

(CNN) – Ger Jansen is puzzling about how to fit a windshield. His problem is not installing it in a car, but hanging the glass in thin air and keeping it hovering for a prolonged display. This is a ...

To recall the magnetic gyro desk toys of the 1980s is to touch the face of uselessness. Crealev of Eindhoven also remembers, but has integrated the "levitation technology" into useful household ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. A couple of years back, as the Bluetooth speaker market exploded and everyone seemed to have figured out a way ...

Ger Jansen is puzzling about how to fit a windshield. His problem is not installing it in a car, but hanging the glass in thin air and keeping it hovering for a prolonged display. This is a fairly ...

An curved arrow pointing right. These magnets "eat slime!" They're experiments conducted by YouTuber Mirko Pafundi. He makes videos about one thing... MAGNETS! His page features over 100 magnetic ...