Jul 19, 2026 from Hackaday Remembering the Zilog Z80 as it Turns Fifty Years Old Perhaps the saddest thing about the Zilog Z80 is that this humble 8-bit microprocessor wasn’t allowed to live until its 50th birthday. This, fortunately, doesn’t prevent people like [David Oberholl...
Jul 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk I've Moved Back to GitHub Back in May, I wrote a post about how I'd migrated all my repos away from GitHub. This ended up being a combination of my self-hosted Git server on my Synology (for my private repos) and Codeberg f...
Jul 19, 2026 from Hackaday QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer In the old days, you either swore by BASIC or you swore at it — but just about everybody got their start on the educational language. Nowadays, the kids are …read more
Jul 19, 2026 from Hackaday A Pop-Up Truck Camper for Less We live in a veritable Cambrian Explosion of camping options, ranging from a tarp on the ground to multi-million dollar RVs. Somewhere around the middle is the pop-up truck camper, …read more
Jul 19, 2026 from Hackaday Open-Source Mid-Drive e-Bike Motor Has Lots of Promise, and Hyphens [Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a hacker to be in that position, there …read more
Jul 19, 2026 from Hackaday Write 2D and 3D Games in Modern MoonBASIC One of the major strengths of the BASIC programming languages has always been their no-fuss setup and rich set of commands for operations that would take considerably more work in …read more
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Your AI Ham Radio Buddy AI chatbots are everywhere these days, and they seem to “know” about everything. But while that is a strength, it can sometimes be a weakness because it isn’t laser-focused on …read more
Jul 18, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory We're going to get to in a long and roundabout way. First I want to talk about the game of Nim. Nim Nim is a very simple game for two players. There...
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Calculator UI Is More Complex Than You Might Think Calculators are so ubiquitous and so familiar that they are easy to take for granted in many different ways. [lcamtuf] points out one that has probably never occurred to many …read more
Jul 18, 2026 from seize the dev Self-Hosted Dynamic DNS A guide to setting up a DDNS server with support for nsupdate.
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday ESP32-driven Roulette Wheel Could Have Used a 555, but That Didn’t have WiFi Sometimes you see a project and immediately, before going into the details, your mind throws up the old refrain: “coulda used a 555” — well, [Hulk] actually agrees when it …read more
Jul 18, 2026 from Peter's Path Marskramer Path part 08 Hiked part 8/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.92 kilometres from Deventer to Klarenbeek. Along the IJsselkade in Deventer you will see the fast-flowing river IJssel, after which the stage runs over th...
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Simple Games from a Simpler Time Modern video games are nothing short of amazing. My son and I were playing through the one of the latest Zeldas, which involve a mix of combat and puzzle-solving that’s …read more
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Spidery Drone Goes Near-invisible By Spinning Really, Really Fast Researchers demonstrate that something interesting happens when a small drone with a spindly airframe spins at a high speed: it very nearly turns invisible. The spidery device is shown mounted …rea...
Jul 18, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Why Bevel Is a Way Better iOS App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health “The Fitbit Air is a really nice wearable—it’s thin, unobtrusive, cheap. But its app, Google Health, has problems. It gives you paragraphs of AI-generated text multiple times a day as long as you h...
Jul 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Apple Music and Apple One subscription prices rise due to licensing costs Apple has raised Apple Music subscription prices in the United States and several other countries, citing rising music licensing costs. The Individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, up by $1, whi...
Jul 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net COSMIC Desktop 1.3 adds frosted glass style and GPU power monitoring COSMIC Desktop 1.3 introduces a major visual overhaul with an optional frosted glass style, adding translucent and blurred effects across panels, menus, application surfaces, the desktop overview, ...
Jul 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Roblox is launching an AI tool for creating games from prompts on mobile Roblox has introduced Build, a new AI powered game creation feature for its mobile app. Users can create basic games from text prompts without programming experience or a desktop device. The tool c...
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to he...
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol 3D printing has been around long enough that everyone’s heard at least one weird trick regarding 3D prints. [Angus] of [Maker’s Muse] puts a few to the test, and came …read more
