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Is a bicycle like a motorcycle? Of course, the answer is it is and it isn’t. Saying something is “like” something else presupposes a lot of hidden assumptions. In the …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What’s a Sun-Like Star?
[BorisDigital] was mesmerised by a modern elevator. He decided to see how hard it would be to design his own elevator based on Raspberry Pis. He started out with a …read more Continue reading Going to the Top with a Raspberry Pi Elevator
Ever wanted your own X-ray machine? Of course you have! Many of us were indoctrinated with enticing ads for X-ray specs and if you like to see what’s inside things, …read more Continue reading You Shouldn’t Build an X-Ray Machine, But You Could
If you want to get started in microfluidic robotics, [soiboi soft’s] salamander is probably too complex for a first project. But it is impressive, and we bet you’ll learn something …read more Continue reading Salamander Robot is Squishy
IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert …read more Continue reading ASCII to Mainframe
Even if you aren’t a Disney fan, you probably know about EPCOT — Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow — a Disney attraction that promised a glimpse of the future. [ErnieTech] …read more Continue reading The Computers of EPCOT
The RTL-SDR dongles get most of the love from people interested in software-defined radio, but the Pluto is also a great option, too. [FromConceptToCircuit] shares code to turn one of …read more Continue reading Pluto’s Not a Planet, But It Is a Spectrum Analyzer
[Georges Gagnerot] has been trying to emulate iOS and run iPhone software in a virtual environment. There were a few choices, and qemu-t8030 had a number of interesting features that …read more Continue reading Emulating iPhone on QEMU
If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when …read more Continue reading Inside an Edison Phonograph
Usually when we talk about retrocomputing, we want to look at — and in — some old hardware. But [Z→Z] has a different approach: dissecting MacPaint, the Apple drawing program …read more Continue reading A Look Inside MacPaint