Collaborate Disseminate
The Blackberry made phones with real keyboards popular, and smartphones with touch keyboards made that input method the default. However, the old flip phone crowd had just a few telephone …read more Continue reading Add TouchTone Typing to Your Next Project
We take it for granted that we almost always have cell service, no matter where you go around town. But there are places — the desert, the forest, or the …read more Continue reading Eulogy for the Satellite Phone
Before YouTube, you had to watch your educational videos on film. In the 1970s, if you studied radio, you might have seen the video from Universal Education and Visual Arts, …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: 1970s Radio
To paraphrase an old joke: How do you know if someone is a Rust developer? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. There is a move to put Rust everywhere, even in …read more Continue reading If Your Kernel Development is a Little Rusty
The last time we checked in with the ELIZA archeology project, they had unearthed the earliest known copy of the code for the infamous computer psychiatrist written in MAD-SLIP. After …read more Continue reading ELIZA Reanimated
This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams caught up after a week-long hiatus. There was a lot to talk about, including clocks, DIY USB cables, and more. In Hackaday …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 325: The Laugh Track Machine, DIY USB-C Power Cables, and Plastic Punches
When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of building our own telescope. One of our friends lived near …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Telescope the Modern Way
There’s a famous old story about [Charles Steinmetz] fixing a generator for [Henry Ford]. He charged a lot of money for putting a chalk X in the spot that needed …read more Continue reading A Number of Microphones… er, Inductors, Rather
When [daniely101] wanted a split keyboard, he decided to build his own. It wound up costing $25 to create a wireless board with no custom PCB required. Each half has …read more Continue reading Split Keyboard Uses No PCB
I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots …read more Continue reading Just for Laughs: Charlie Douglass and the Laugh Track