Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it’s from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 Sea Stallion first entered service in 1966. It’s a huge …read more Continue reading The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades
[Dave] over at Usagi Electric has a mystery on his hands in the form of a computer. He picked up a Motorola 68000 based machine at a local swap meet. …read more Continue reading Usagi’s New Computer is a Gas!
The Bendix G-15 refurbished by [David at Usagi Electric] is well known as the oldest digital computer in North America. The question [David] gets most is “what can you do …read more Continue reading CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Runs on A Bendix G-15 in 2025
It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at VCF East 2025. They had no fewer than nine computers — …read more Continue reading Celebrating 30 Years of Windows 95 at VCF
[Abe] wanted the perfect portable computer. He has a DevTerm, but it didn’t quite fit his needs. This is Hackaday after all, so he loaded up his favorite CAD software …read more Continue reading The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer
Just when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator post-processing script. This time, the GPL v3 licensed program …read more Continue reading Software Lets You Paint Surface Patterns on 3D Prints
We all take Ethernet and its ubiquitous RJ-45 connector for granted these days. But Ethernet didn’t start with twisted pair cable. [Mark] and [Ben] at The Serial Port YouTube channel …read more Continue reading The Twisted History of Ethernet on Twisted Pair Wiring
If you’re into building large projects, you’ll eventually find yourself looking at wire rope. Multistrand steel wire used as antenna guy wires, bridge supports, and plenty of other uses. The …read more Continue reading Wire Rope: Never Saddle a Dead Horse
[Mattmopar] figured out how to get a white Christmas even if the weather isn’t frightful. He built a simple DIY snow making machine with a few plumbing parts, and tools …read more Continue reading Let it Snow with a sub $100 snowmaking machine.
There’s a Blue Bendix in Texas, and thanks to [Usagi Electric] it’s the oldest operating computer in North America. The Bendix G-15, a vacuum tube computer originally released in 1956, …read more Continue reading The Bendix G-15 Runs 75,000 Lines of Code