Collaborate Disseminate
[BillPg] has been designing a fantasy 1980s-era home computer. As part of the exercise, he’s reevaluating all the assumptions that have grown organically over time in the small computer landscape. …read more Continue reading He Comes to Bury Segmented Memory, Not to Praise It
Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams were in a retro mood this week. There was a new ‘486 computer, a new mechanical TV, and a USB stick with a magnetic …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 376: Modern Retro Projects, Retro Modern Projects, and the Teen Years for 3D Printing
Bridges are a part of our constructed landscape that we take for granted. And bridges by themselves aren’t especially important. What is important is that bridges let you get from …read more Continue reading The Teenage Angst of 3D Printing: Solidoodle, Printrbot, and Bridges
You’re wandering through a thrift store and spot an old router for ten bucks. Worthless, right? But in this case, it was a Google OnHub, which, at the time, was …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Upcycling an Old Router
If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For …read more Continue reading A Brief History of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)
You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplistically, …read more Continue reading Picking a CRC
A pacemaker is implanted to send signals that regulate a patient’s heartbeat, and to do that, you need power. That means they require battery changes, and when the device in …read more Continue reading The Pacemaker Patch
We were excited to see [Z0hn]’s project about 3D printing a custom watch from scratch — both because it was an exciting idea, and because the pictures looked great. While …read more Continue reading Custom Watch is on the Case
We are fans of macro pads and especially homebrew ones. The Apna Dost project by [np_vishwakarma] ticks most of our boxes. In addition to a few buttons, there’s an encoder, …read more Continue reading Homebrew Macropad Looks Good
When you think of a computer, you probably don’t think of a tube full of motors and mechanics. However, as [Our Own Devices] shows, the Bendix AN5841 API Computer, an …read more Continue reading The Air Position Indicator for the B-29