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You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren’t retro ...
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Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those c...
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[Andy Huot] has a fantastic-looking infinity mirror digital clock that really raises the bar. It uses high quality co...
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Apple hardware has always been proprietary, sometimes to an extreme. But that’s not to say that it’s impossible to ma...
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The 2026 Hackaday Superconference is just around the corner in November. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been having ...
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Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electro...
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Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly...
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Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few ...
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Folding a sheet of metal in a straight line is one thing, but how does one fold multiple curved lines into a sheet of...
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When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect ‘yes’, with a four-digit price ta...
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For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction...
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Nintendo has made many game consoles in its long history — one that famously overlaps that of the Ottoman Empire — bu...
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In this specially-numbered podcast episode that lines up quite nicely with our Retrocomputing Challenge, Elliot Willi...
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The revival in film photography has brought a range of specialist films to tempt the experimenter, as well as increas...
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Several times this summer, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, the monthly roundup of major security patches for Microsoft pro...
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One of the things we used to appreciate about broadcast television is that… you kinda just got what you got. You didn...
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Expressif might not have intended the ESP32-S3 to become an emulation powerhouse, but that’s certainly what has happe...
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Once upon a time, you had to carefully budget your microcontroller’s resources if you wanted to do something as simpl...
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As FDM printers keep getting faster, we are forced to deal with a range of bottlenecks, all of which conspire to hold...
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A fun part of modifying something like a motorbike is that you sometimes have to come up with creative solutions to b...