Collaborate Disseminate
The story of Commodore, the famous manufacturer of home computers, is a murky one at best. Commodore fans will decry their woeful marketing and dismal product roadmap, while former employees …read more Continue reading Amiga and Commodore, Back Together (Sort Of)
It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a …read more Continue reading Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread
Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I …read more Continue reading BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp
In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it …read more Continue reading Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1)
Many of us will be used to the idea of a KVM, a device that pipes keyboard, video, and mouse over the network from a remote machine to your own. …read more Continue reading A KVM Without the V (Or the M)
At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display …read more Continue reading The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser
A talk from the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK caught our eye, in which [Amy Jeskins] looked at the overlooked engineering skill of pattern cutting. She takes us …read more Continue reading Why Is Textile Work Not Taught To Engineers?
At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources. Fortunately there was [Tryst] at hand, who works in the …read more Continue reading The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next
Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional paper publishing industry did its best to keep up. For a few brief …read more Continue reading A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum
Flexible printed circuit boards are a fascinating technique for making electronics venture beyond the two-dimensional, but surprisingly they’re not something many of us have worked with. [Jessica Stanley] gave a …read more Continue reading Flexible PCBs: Not Only For The Few