Tis the Season
’Tis the season for soldering! At least at my house. My son and I made some fairly LED-laden gifts for the immediate relatives last year, and he’s got the blinky …read more Continue reading Tis the Season
Author Archives: Elliot Williams
Did You Know YoSys Knows VHDL Too?
We’ve been fans of the Yosys / Nextpnr open-source FPGA toolchain for a long while now, and like [Michael] we had no idea that their oss-cad-suite installer sets up everything …read more Continue reading Did You Know YoSys Knows VHDL Too?
Thanks for Hacking
It’s that time of year again, when the turkey roasts and we think of the important things that we’re thankful for. Here at Hackaday, we’re simply thankful for all of …read more Continue reading Thanks for Hacking
Open Source, Forced Innovation, and Making Good Products
The open-source hardware business landscape is no doubt a tough one, but is it actually tougher than for closed-source hardware? That question has been on our minds since the announcement …read more Continue reading Open Source, Forced Innovation, and Making Good Products
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Seen in the Wild
Last Thursday we were at Electronica, which is billed as the world’s largest electronics trade show, and it probably is! It fills up twenty airplane-hangar-sized halls in Munich, and only …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Seen in the Wild
The Badge Hacks of Supercon
We just got home from Supercon and well, it was super. It was great to see everyone, and meet a whole bunch of new folks to boot! The talks were …read more Continue reading The Badge Hacks of Supercon
Hardware-in-the-Loop Continuous Integration
How can you tell if your software is doing what it’s supposed to? Write some tests and run them every time you change anything. But what if you’re making hardware? …read more Continue reading Hardware-in-the-Loop Continuous Integration
The 2024 Hackaday Supercon SAO Badge Reveal
We’ve been hinting at it for a few months now, running a series of articles on SAOs, then a Supercon Add-On Challenge. We even let on that the badge would …read more Continue reading The 2024 Hackaday Supercon SAO Badge Reveal
2024 Supercon: Third Round of Super Speakers
The third and final round of the 2024 Supercon talks announcements brings us to the end, and the full schedule is now up on Hackaday.io. With Supercon just a couple …read more Continue reading 2024 Supercon: Third Round of Super Speakers
Hackaday Hacked!
Well, that was “fun”. Last week, we wrote a newsletter post about the state of Hackaday’s comments. We get good ones and bad ones, and almost all the time, we …read more Continue reading Hackaday Hacked!