Collaborate Disseminate
No need to wonder what stories Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams were reading this week. They’ll tell you about them in this week’s podcast. The guys revisit the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 263: Better DCMA, AI Spreadsheet Play, and Home Assistants Your Way
There’s an old joke about how can you find the height of a building using a barometer. One of the punchlines is to drop the barometer from the roof and …read more Continue reading Weird Things To Do With FPGAs
We are always fascinated when someone can take something and extend it in a clever way without changing the original thing. In the computer world, that’s old hat. New computers …read more Continue reading The Long Strange Trip to US Color TV
You have a broken gear you need to fix, but there’s no equivalent part available. That’s the issue [Well Done Tips] faced with a plastic gear from a lawnmower. While …read more Continue reading Repairing a Gear with a Candle (and Some Epoxy)
[Grug Huhler] built a simple Tayloe mixer and detector on a breadboard. He decided to extend it a bit to be a full-blown software defined radio (SDR). He then used …read more Continue reading Breadboard SDR Doesn’t Need Much
While we’ve been known to use and abuse spreadsheets in the past, we haven’t taken it to the level of [Spreadsheets Are All You Need]. The site provides a spreadsheet …read more Continue reading Learn AI via Spreadsheet
Full disclosure: [Óscar] isn’t nine now, but he was in 1988 when he wrote LOCS, a drawing program in Z80 assembly modeled after Logo. You can see a demo of …read more Continue reading A Nine-Year-Old’s Z80 Drawing Program
When you think about hardware description languages, you probably think of Verilog or VHDL. There are others, of course, but those are the two elephants in the room. Do we …read more Continue reading Do We Need a New Hardware Description Language?
If you hang out on certain kinds of sites, you can find huge-capacity USB drives and high-power yet tiny solar panels, all at shockingly low prices. Of course, the USB …read more Continue reading Folding Solar Panel is Underpowered
Today, if you want to send a message to a distant location, you’ll probably send an e-mail or a text message. But it hasn’t always been that easy. Military commanders, …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Air Mail for the Birds