Earlier this year Zilog stopped production of the classic 40-pin DIP Z80 microprocessor, a move that brought a tear to...
Hackaday
Should you be able to brick a keyboard just by writing a driver to flash the lights on it? We...
Many hobbies seem to have a subset of participants who just can’t leave well enough alone. Think about hot rodders,...
July 1981 cover of CompuServe’s magazine. Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were...
Sometimes there’s nothing more rewarding than pulling apart an old piece of hardware of mysterious origin. does just that, and...
Al and I were talking on the podcast about Dan Maloney’s recent piece on how lead and silver are refined...
One of the most universal experiences of any Linux or Unix user is working through a guide or handbook and...
Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this over-the-air TV simulator. And it...
A word of warning before watching this very cool video on soldering: it may make you greatly desire what appears...
The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered cool, and ephemera of the...
Bumper stickers are usually political, crude, or otherwise inflammatory. Rather a more fun example is this digital creation from ,...
was digging around their old MAC hard drives, revisiting some abandoned shareware games they wrote over three decades ago, and...
Nothing can ruin a restoration project faster than broken knobs. Sure, that old “boat anchor” ham rig will work just...
The modern web has become difficult to navigate without ad blocking software. Ford now has a patent that would bring...
A disclaimer: Not a single cable tie was harmed in the making of this backpack cyberdeck, and considering that we...
As technology progresses, we generally expect processing capabilities to scale up. Every year, we get more processor power, faster speeds,...
The ‘Sombrero Potential’ as seen with the Higgs mechanism. One of the exciting aspects of some fields of physics is...
Like many people who solder regularly, I decided years ago to upgrade from a basic iron and invest in a...
We’ve seen a great many cat feeders over the years. Some rely on the Internet of Things, and some rely...
As the technology available to the average hacker and maker gets better and cheaper each year, projects which at one...
Ever been working on a project and get stuck on one of those last little details? That’s what happened to...
As anyone who’s looked at the sky just before dawn or right after dusk can confirm, for the last seventy...
claims he’s not a radio repair guy, but he agreed to look at a malfunctioning Hallicrafters S-120 shortwave receiver. He...
Recently, bought an Akaso EK7000 action camera for his daughter’s no-smartphones-allowed summer camp, which meant that after his daughter returned...
What can you do with a cheap Linux machine with limited flash and only a single free GPIO line? Probably...
