Collaborate Disseminate
Tom Nardi and I were talking about his trip to the Vintage Computer Festival on the podcast, and he admitted to not having been a retrocomputer aficionado before his first …read more Continue reading Learning Obsolete Technology
Ding! That’s the bell for the second challenge round of the 2022 Hackaday Prize. If your project reuses or recycles what would otherwise be waste materials, or helps you to …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize Enters Second Round: Reuse, Recycle, Revamp
This week on Hackaday, we featured a project that tickled my nostalgia bone, and proved that there are cool opportunities when bringing new tech to old problems. Let me explain. …read more Continue reading New Tech and the Old Ways
The Sci-Fi Contest closed out on Monday, and we put our heads together and picked our favorites. And it was no easy task, because in addition to many of the …read more Continue reading 2022 Sci-Fi Contest: The Winners are In
Time flies! This weekend marks the end of the first stage of the 2022 Hackaday Prize, and your chance to enter your alternative-energy projects. There are ten $500 prizes up …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Get Your Planet-Friendly Power On!
My niece’s two favorite classes in high school this year are “Intro to AI” and “Ethical Hacking”. (She goes to a much cooler high school than I did!) In “Hacking”, …read more Continue reading Research: It’s Like Cheating, but Fair
I’m a huge DIY’er. I don’t like to buy things when I can build them myself. But honestly, that doesn’t always end up in the optimal allocation of my time, …read more Continue reading Easy, Extensible, Open
Nobody likes opening up a hacking target and finding a black epoxy blob inside, but all hope is not lost. At least not if you’ve got the dedication and skills …read more Continue reading Remoticon 2021 // Jeroen Domburg [Sprite_tm] Hacks the Buddah Flower
[Görg Pflug] wrote in with his really nice graphics library. It’s got multiple layers, two text consoles, greyscale, internal halftoning, and sprites. It can pull off a number of classic …read more Continue reading Mindblowing Graphics from an ATtiny85
We ran an article this week about RS-485, a noise resistant differential serial multidrop bus architecture. (Tell me where else you’re going to read articles like that!) I’ve had my …read more Continue reading The Virtue of Wires in the Age of Wireless