Collaborate Disseminate
At various times in the history of desktop computing, the market has stubbornly refused to follow the path dictated for it by a dominant manufacturer. IBM’s move to MCA in …read more Continue reading Giving a Power Mac G4 a USB Upgrade, For Free!
It’s well known that the difference in executable size between a compiled binary and one hand-written in optimized assembler will be significant. The compiler brings in all manner of boilerplate …read more Continue reading How Small Can You Make A C Executable?
One of the delights of our tips line is that from time to time it brings us retrocomputing hardware that, despite years of reporting, we were not aware existed. [Hitmanmcc] …read more Continue reading A New Life For a Rare Console
To emulate vintage microprocessor hardware, it’s normal to find a modern host that provides alongside the number-crunching grunt, sufficient physical connections to interface with its support hardware. Thus if you …read more Continue reading An Unlikely Host For An 8080 Emulator
We are all in search of the fastest in a wireless router, to give ourselves the best connectivity to the world. But what about the slowest? Gigabit Ethernet may not …read more Continue reading An Ethernet WiFi Router on a Pi Pico 2W
The most recent Hackaday event badge has been the Communicator, a handheld wireless terminal with a rather nice QWERTY keyboard. It’s good enough as delivered, but [makeTVee] has gone one …read more Continue reading An RGB Keyboard For Your Hackaday Communicator Badge
The GRiD Compass is a legendary portable computer — a taste of an early-80s future with bubble memory, tough enough for NASA to take them into space, and one of …read more Continue reading The World’s First GPIB Speech Synthesizer, and it’s for a GRiD Compass
There was a time when a CB radio was a simple affair: a small box with a channel selector, volume, and squelch controls. No longer it seems, because they can …read more Continue reading Web-Based Control for a CB Radio
Most larger ride-around landscaping machinery has a similar transmission, a transaxle containing a gearbox, or in some cases, a continuously variable drive. [Made In Garage] has a Toro lawn tractor …read more Continue reading Hydraulic Drive For Your Lawn Tractor
We’ve seen just about every possible way to make a clock here at Hackaday over the years. So it’s rare to have a first, but here we are with [Twisted …read more Continue reading A Diffraction Grating Makes This Clock Readable