Collaborate Disseminate
As single board computers have become ever smaller and more powerful, so have those experimenting with them tried to push the boundaries of the machines they can be used in. …read more Continue reading A Very Tidy Handheld Pi Terminal Indeed
Home routers and cable modems are now extremely powerful devices, but they all suffer from the attention of their manufacturers’ design and marketing departments. Instead of neatly packaging them in …read more Continue reading A Cable Modem, The Way All Network Gear Should Be Mounted
Most of us know that a quartz clock uses a higher frequency crystal oscillator and a chain of divider circuits to generate a 1 Hz pulse train. It’s usual to …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: A Discrete Component Divider Chain
Wall warts. Plug mounted power supplies that turn mains voltage into low voltage DC on a barrel jack to power a piece of equipment. We’ve all got a load of …read more Continue reading USB-C-ing All The Things
If you’ve worked with germanium transistors, you’ll know that many of them have a disappointingly low maximum frequency of operation. This has more to do with some of the popular …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: An Ancient Transistor Counts The Seconds
We’re all used to crystal resonators — they provide pretty accurate frequency references for oscillators with low enough drift for most of our purposes. As the quartz equivalent of a …read more Continue reading Listen To The Sound Of The Crystals
Do you ever look at the news, and wonder about the process behind the news cycle? I did, and for the last couple of decades it’s been the subject of …read more Continue reading Crunching The News For Fun And Little Profit
If you have any empathy at all for those of us in the journalistic profession, have some pity for the poor editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, who let through an …read more Continue reading The Hackaday Summer Reading List: No AI Involvement, Guaranteed
Sometimes a write-up of a piece of retrocomputing hardware goes way beyond the hardware itself and into the industry that spawned it, and thus it is with [OldVCR]’s resurrection of …read more Continue reading A Feast Of 1970s Gaming History, And An 8080 Arcade Board
If you’re a regular GitHub user you’ll be familiar with the website’s graphical calendar display of activity as a grid. For some of you it will show a hive of …read more Continue reading Track Your GitHub Activity With This E-Ink Display