Collaborate Disseminate
Bavarian Alps, Dec. 1945: Since 1935, Berlin engineer Konrad Zuse has spent his entire career developing a series of automatic calculators, the first of their kind in the world: the …read more Continue reading The Other First Computer: Konrad Zuse and the Z3
[Ben Heck] found an old card-swipe point-of-sale box at the Goodwill store, took it home, and tore it down to see what was inside. He found a completely serviceable single …read more Continue reading Z80 Family Reunion Discovered in Old PoS Card Swiper
No stranger to the world of 3D printers, [Elias Bakken] from the [Intelligent Agent] workshop has released a new controller board called Recore. The typical 3D printer has a dedicated …read more Continue reading Recore Hacks the Hidden Microcontroller for 3D Printing
[Miroslav Nemecek] really pushes the limits of the Pico with his PicoVGA project, which packs a surprising number of features. His main goal with this library is to run retro …read more Continue reading VGA Library for the Raspberry Pi Pico
A few months ago, a tweet by [Ken Shirriff] asking about simple digital simulators caught my attention. The topic came up again in May when a repair video by [CuriousMarc] …read more Continue reading Survey of Simple Logic Simulators
[Lauri Pirttiaho] from the [Swiss Knife of Electronics] channel explains how to simplify your resistive divider keypad design on Hackaday.io. The usual method involves building a resistive ladder that gives …read more Continue reading Improved Technique for Resistive Divider Keypads
For seven months, [Bernardo Kastrup] at [TheByteAttic] has been realizing his childhood dream of building his own computer. It was this dream that steered him into the field of computer …read more Continue reading Cerberus 2080 — Three-Headed Retro Computing Project
While some of us are still clinging onto our favorite 8-bit microprocessors, ARM announced they will be killing off the 32-bit architecture in 2022 and/or 2023. Over on the GaryExplains YouTube …read more Continue reading Is 32-bits Really Dead?
This collection of public domain books proclaims to not be about survival, but for survivors. It is a extensive collection of text books, manuals, etc., in over 150 categories from …read more Continue reading Old Textbooks Galore
Responding to the Rethink Displays challenge of the 2021 Hackaday Prize contest, freelance design engineer [Rick Pannen] brings a retro look to his DIY home automation controller. You could be …read more Continue reading Home Automation Controller uses Chalk