Collaborate Disseminate
Back in the mid 1990s, the release of Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system cemented the Redmond software company’s dominance over most of the desktop operating system space. Apple were still …read more Continue reading Jenny’s Daily Drivers: Haiku R1/beta5
An unlikely hit of the last few months’ consumer hardware has been a power bank branded by the German confectionery company Haribo. It first gained attention in backpacking circles because …read more Continue reading That Power Bank Isn’t Quite So Sweet
The Pebble was the smartwatch darling of the early 2010s, a glimpse of the future in the form of a microcontroller and screen strapped to your wrist. It was snapped …read more Continue reading The New Pebble: Now 100% Open Source
If you own a handheld transceiver of any type then the chances are it will come with a “rubber duck” style antenna. These flexible rubber-coated antennas are a compromise in …read more Continue reading All Handheld Antennas Are Not Born The Same
The hoverboard, one of the teen crazes of the last decade, is both a marvel of technology and a source of hacker parts that have appeared in so many projects …read more Continue reading Has Steampunk Delivered the Hoverboard?
The IKEA SMÅSNÖRE is a flexible silicone rod with an embedded LED strip, attached at each end to a base. It’s eye-catching enough, and it has the useful property of …read more Continue reading A Flexible Light Inspired by IKEA
It’s been twenty-three years since the day Phoenix was released, the web browser that eventually became Firefox. I downloaded it on the first day and installed it on my trusty …read more Continue reading So Long Firefox, Hello Vivaldi
An interesting trend over the last year or two has been the emergence of modern retrocomputer PCs, recreations of classic PC hardware from back in the day taking advantage of …read more Continue reading A Couple Of New DOS PCs Appear
There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts with the old joke that if you …read more Continue reading It’s Hard to Make a (Good) Oscillator
The original Xbox was different from the consoles that had gone before, in that its hardware shared much with a PC of the day. It was found to be hackable, …read more Continue reading Remember XBMC? It’s Back!