A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and other projects ...

An unassuming warehouse off Route 63 in Harleysville contains one of the world’s largest collections of vintage electronic music gear, crammed with amps, synthesizers, guitar pedals, mixing boards, ...

Materials that contain both the properties of a conductor and an electrical insulator are known as semiconductors. Although the concept had been discussed before, the first documented observation of a ...

“The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator,” says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum. Our series on the birth of the transistor — and with it, the ...

The origins of electronic music—by which we mean not just dubstep and house, but anything produced with electronic music technology—are often traced back to Robert Moog. In 1964, Moog's eponymous ...

"Computer mail and messaging have probably been independently invented many times. I do not know who first invented these applications, and I haven't found any documented versions that precede the ...

Some of the guests who’ve shown up to speak to the students in King James Britt’s music course at UC San Diego look like the lineup for an all-star music festival—James Poyser, Jill Scott, Questlove, ...

Rüfüs Du Sol have officially made touring history. The Grammy-winning Australian trio has been recognised for delivering the ...

Most people are aware of some of the most famous milestones in early spaceflight, such as the orbit of Sputnik in 1957, Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard’s flights into space in 1961, and Neil Armstrong ...

An unassuming warehouse off Route 63 in Harleysville contains one of the world’s largest collections of vintage electronic music gear, crammed with amps, synthesizers, guitar pedals, mixing boards, ...