''Hackaday'' is a hardware hacking website. It was founded in 2004 as a

web magazine An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer magaz ...

. Since 2014, Hackaday also hosts a community database of

open-source hardware Open-source hardware (OSH) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by this open-source culture movement and a ...

designs.

History

Hackaday was founded in 2004 by Phillip Torrone as a web magazine for

Engadget ''Engadget'' ( ) is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics. ''Engadget'' manages ten blogs four of which are written in English and six have international versions with independent editori ...

, devoted to publishing and archiving "the best hacks, mods and

DIY "Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts. Academic research has described DIY as behaviors where "individuals use raw and semi ...

projects from around web". Hackaday was since split from Engadget and its former parent company Weblogs, Inc. by its at the time owner

Jason Calacanis Jason McCabe Calacanis (born November 28, 1970) is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and podcaster. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York. His second venture, Weblogs, Inc., a publishing company tha ...

. In 2007 ''

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'' magazine ranked Hackaday #10 on their list of the top 15 geek blog sites. Hackaday.io started as a project hosting site in 2014 under the name of Hackaday Projects. It allows users to upload open-source hardware designs. As of 2015, it had grown into a social network of 100,000 members. In 2015, Hackaday's owner, Supplyframe, acquired the hardware marketplace Tindie. In 2021, Hackaday's owner, Supplyframe, was acquired by Siemens.

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