Are Minimills Worth It?
These days, the bar for home-built projects is high. With 3D printers, CNC, and cheap service providers, you can’t get away with building circuits in a shoe box or an …read more Continue reading Are Minimills Worth It?
Collaborate Disseminate
These days, the bar for home-built projects is high. With 3D printers, CNC, and cheap service providers, you can’t get away with building circuits in a shoe box or an …read more Continue reading Are Minimills Worth It?
[Sean Haas] is a “dangerous freelance historian,” and his recent talk at the Vintage Computer Festival in Southern California covers the cryotron — a strange detour on the road to …read more Continue reading The Cryotron Remembered
In 1987, your portable Osborne computer had a problem. Who you gonna call? Well, maybe the company that made “The Osborne Survival Kit,” a video from Witt Services acquired by …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Right to Repair 1987
[Oscar] is no stranger to writing hard-to-read C code. While most of us do that by accident, there are those who strive to write the most unreadable code and enter …read more Continue reading Obfuscated C 8080 Emulator Ported
[Oscar] is no stranger to writing hard-to-read C code. While most of us do that by accident, there are those who strive to write the most unreadable code and enter …read more Continue reading Obfuscated C 8080 Emulator Ported
There was a time when test equipment was big and heavy. Those days are gone, and [Kiss Analog] shows us the inside of a Uni-T UTG962E arbitrary waveform generator. The …read more Continue reading Tiny Signal Generator Revealed
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)