Collaborate Disseminate
It’s hard to read the headlines today without feeling like the world couldn’t possibly get much worse. And then tomorrow rolls around, and a fresh set of headlines puts the …read more Continue reading E-Paper News Feed Illustrates the Headlines with AI-Generated Images
Join us on Wednesday, September 20 at noon Pacific for the Satellite Hunting Hack Chat with Scott Tilley! From the very first beeps of Sputnik, space has primarily been the …read more Continue reading Satellite Hunting Hack Chat
OK, it’s official — everyone hates San Francisco’s self-driving taxi fleet. Or at least so it seems, if this video of someone vandalizing a Cruise robotaxi is an accurate reflection …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 17, 2023
A question for you: if the cathode ray tube had never been invented, what would an oscilloscope look like? We’re not sure ourselves, but it seems like something similar to …read more Continue reading Spinning CRT Makes a 360 Degree Audio Oscilloscope
“The lathe is the only machine tool that can make copies of itself,” or so the saying goes. The reality is more like, “A skilled machinist can use a lathe …read more Continue reading Infinite Z-Axis Printer Aims to Print Itself Someday
Elliot and Dan got together this time around to recap the week in hacks, and it looks like the Hackaday writing crew very much had cars on their minds. We …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 236: The Car Episode, Building Leonardo’s Water Mill, Reviving Radio Shack
The trouble with fixing electronics is that most devices are just black boxes — literally. Tear it down, look inside, but it usually doesn’t matter — all you see are …read more Continue reading Putting the Magic Smoke Back into a Dodgy Spectrum Analyzer
As obsolete as the original IBM Model 5150 PC may appear, it’s pretty much the proverbial giant’s shoulders upon which we all stand today. That makes the machine worth celebrating, …read more Continue reading Book8088 Slows Down to Join the Demoscene
In retrocomputing circles, it’s often the case that the weirder and rarer the machine, the more likely it is to attract attention. And machines don’t get much weirder than the …read more Continue reading Clock Hack Gives DEC Rainbow a New Lease on Life
Most of us probably have a vision of how “The Robots” will eventually rise up and deal humanity out of the game. We’ve all seen that movie, of course, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 10, 2023