Collaborate Disseminate
If you’re working with a microcontroller that reads a sensor, the chances are that at some point you’re faced with a serial port passing out continuous readings. The workflow of …read more Continue reading Capture and Plot Serial Data in the Browser
A few years ago, I bought an 8 mm home movie camera in a second hand store. I did a teardown on it here and pulled out for your pleasure …read more Continue reading Returning To An Obsolete Home Movie Format
An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a disk-based operating system as we would know it …read more Continue reading Microsoft BASIC For 6502 Is Now Open Source
Something which may well unite Hackaday readers is the experience of being “The computer person” among your family or friends. You’ll know how it goes, when you go home for …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Now You Install Your Friends’ VPNs. But Which One?
Of the machines from the 16-bit era, the Commodore Amiga arguably has the most active community decades later, and it’s a space which still has the power to surprise. Today …read more Continue reading An Amiga Demo With No CPU Involved
If your school in the 1980s was lucky enough to have a well-equipped computer lab, the chances are that alongside the 8-bit machines you might have found a little two-wheeled …read more Continue reading This Plotter Knows No Boundaries
As the art of 3D printing has refined itself over the years, a few accessories have emerged to take prints to the next level. One of them is the threaded …read more Continue reading No Need For Inserts If You’re Prepared To Use Self-Tappers
The internals of a printer, whatever technology it may use, are invariably proprietary, with an abstracted more standard language being used to communicate with a host computer. Thus it’s surprisingly …read more Continue reading A Label Printer Gets A New Brain
Ask a Hackaday scribe who’s helped run the lightning talks at one of our events, and they’ll tell you that keeping the speakers on time is a challenge. Conversely if …read more Continue reading Lightning Talks On Time, With This Device
It’s likely that many of you use some form of CAD package, but how many of you have decided you didn’t like the software on offer? [Marcus Wu] did, and …read more Continue reading CAD, From Scratch: MakerCAD