Collaborate Disseminate
The holy grail of computing is to have some way to distribute a program to any computer. This is one of those totally unachievable goals, but many have tried with …read more Continue reading Color Us Impressed: Redbean Runs a Web Server on Six Operating Systems
When we first saw the VBA curve tracer, we thought it might have something to do with Visual Basic for Applications. But it turns out it is a mash up …read more Continue reading Homebrew Curve Tracer Competes with the Big Guns
The early days of FDM 3D printing were wild and wooly. Getting plastic to stick to your build plate was a challenge. Blue tape and hairspray-coated glass were kings for …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Resin Printer Build Plates
The early days of FDM 3D printing were wild and wooly. Getting plastic to stick to your build plate was a challenge. Blue tape and hairspray-coated glass were kings for …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Resin Printer Build Plates
The aptly-named [chip-red-pill] team is offering you a chance to go down the Intel rabbit hole. If you learned how to build CPUs back in the 1970s, you would learn …read more Continue reading Down the Intel Microcode Rabbit Hole
You probably see them so often that you don’t even notice they are there. Fire hydrants are one of those things that aren’t interesting until you need them, but then …read more Continue reading Tech In Plain Sight: Fire Hydrants
What do you do with those old Android or iPhone phones and tablets? You have plenty of options, but it is pretty easy to build your own stream deck with …read more Continue reading Quick Hack: The Phone to Stream Deck Conversion
[Maurizio] built a robot arm, which is always a great accomplishment. But his project includes a very cool touch interface for an Android device that sets it apart from many …read more Continue reading Robot Arm Has the Touch
According to [Asianometry], in 1986 the Soviet Union had about 10,000 computers. At the same time, the United States had 1.3 million! The USSR was hardly a backward country — …read more Continue reading A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry
Usually, when we are talking about old computers, we are thinking of BASIC interpreters. But [Fireship] reminds us that it was originally Fortran and promises to give you the essentials …read more Continue reading Looking at Fortran in 100 Seconds