Collaborate Disseminate
While ham radio operators have been embracing digital mobile radio (DMR), the equipment is most often bought since — at least in early incarnations — it needs a proprietary CODEC …read more Continue reading Open Source DMR Radio
When Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams need a break from writing posts, they hop on the podcast and talk about their favorite stories of the past week. Want …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 317: Quantum Diamonds, Citizen Science, and Cobol to AI
The best kind of Hackaday posts are the ones where there was some insurmountable problem with an elegant solution devised through deep analysis of the problem and creativity. This is …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Stopping a Runaway
We don’t think of computers as something you’d find in the 17th century. But [Levi McClain] found plans for one in a book — books, actually — by [Athanasius Kirker] …read more Continue reading A 17th Century Music Computer
GPS and similar satellite navigation systems revolutionized how you keep track of where you are and what time it is. However, it isn’t without its problems. For one, it generally …read more Continue reading GPS Broken? Try TV!
If you are a visual thinker, you might enjoy [AIHVHIA’s] recent video, which shows the effect of applying audio processing to text displayed on an oscilloscope. The video is below. …read more Continue reading Audio Effects Applied to Text
It is hard to imagine that it has been more than four decades since two of the original designers of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum broke off to market the Jupiter …read more Continue reading The Jupiter Ace Remembered
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