Collaborate Disseminate
[Too Many Wires] has a custom computer he’s building. He wanted a mouse, but USB is a bit of a stretch for the fledgling computer. We might have opted for …read more Continue reading A Serial Mouse for a Homebrew 8-bit Computer
Have you ever wished your hand had an extra feature? Like, maybe, a second thumb? A scope probe pinky maybe? Well, if you are building a robot effector, you get …read more Continue reading For a Robot Claw, the Eyes Have It
We feel for [Jeff Geerling]. He spent a lot of effort building an AI cluster out of Raspberry PI boards and $3,000 later, he’s a bit regretful. As you can …read more Continue reading Regretfully: $3,000 Worth of Raspberry Pi Boards
It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and the desk clerk says, “Ah, Mr. Barker, there’s a letter …read more Continue reading Forgotten Internet: The Story of Email
Tang FPGA boards are affordable, and [nand2mario] has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while. Looks like it finally worked out, as there is …read more Continue reading Retro x86 with 486Tang
There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to create the nuclear bomb. Most of them don’t have a lot …read more Continue reading Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Manhattan Project (But Were Afraid to Ask)
We’ll admit it. We have access to great debugging tools and, yes, sometimes they are invaluable. But most of the time, we’ll just throw a few print statements in whatever …read more Continue reading Debugging vs Printing
Here at Hackaday Central, we fancy that we know a little something about Linux. But if you’d tasked us to run any GUI program inside a Linux terminal, we’d have …read more Continue reading Everything in a Linux Terminal
Last time, I described how to write a simple Android app and get it talking to your code on Linux. So, of course, we need an example. Since I’ve been …read more Continue reading The Android Linux Commander
[Rex Malik] didn’t need an alarm clock. That’s because he had one of two “home computer terminals” next to his bed and, as you can see in the video below, …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Noisy Home Computer from 1967