Collaborate Disseminate
In the sweltering temperatures of an unusually hot European heatwave, I found myself having a chat with a friend of mine from my university days. After discussing the health of …read more Continue reading When An Engineering Education Doesn’t Teach You How To Really Make Anything
The NTSC television standard is a masterpiece of mid-century engineering, to pack a color image into the transmission bandwidth of a monochrome one, and to do so while maintaining backward …read more Continue reading Why the NES Put Out a Wobbly Picture
People in hotter parts of the world may permit themselves a grin at this, but Europeans have recently been suffering under an unseasonal June heatwave. Most of us have been …read more Continue reading The Coolest Hat At The Hacker Camp
In theory, MIDI is an electrical and protocol standard that allows any such equipped instrument or computer to talk to any other. But as the wonderfully named [Knob Monster] will …read more Continue reading Old Midi Instruments Don’t Like Modern Midi. What’s To Be Done?
We all know the e-ink persistent displays, as they’re cheap and plentiful enough to have become ubiquitous in applications such as supermarket price labels. But we don’t often see some …read more Continue reading The Persistent Display We Never Got
A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant rate. But how about in a theatrical setting, where time …read more Continue reading Time Never Moves Slowly With This Clock
When we think of 1960s synthesizers it’s usual to imagine instruments with vast arrays of controls and patch cables for configuring their many filters, oscillators, and other parameters. They created …read more Continue reading The Organ That Forgot To Use Transistors
It’s a fact of life when starting a computer, that booting into whatever operating system you use will take a while. Mine takes somewhere around 30 seconds, and yours probably …read more Continue reading Jenny’s Daily Drivers: KolibriOS 0.7.7
A few weeks ago we published the first in a new series of articles, Know Your Food. It was born out of the realisation that most people know surprisingly little about …read more Continue reading Know Your Food: Organic Production
Last September, Denmark was gripped by a spate of drone sightings near airports. It’s familiar territory for Hackaday, as we reported on a similar drone panic saga at British airports …read more Continue reading A Rare Drone Common Sense Outbreak, In Denmark