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A Very Tidy Handheld Pi Terminal Indeed

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in handheld, handhelds hacks, hyperpixel, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

A Cable Modem, The Way All Network Gear Should Be Mounted

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in 19-inch, 19-inch rack, Network Hacks, network modem

2025 One Hertz Challenge: A Discrete Component Divider Chain

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in 2025 One Hertz Contest, 32.768 kHz, clock divider, clock hacks, contests

USB-C-ing All The Things

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in dc power, parts, USB-C, USB-C PD

2025 One Hertz Challenge: An Ancient Transistor Counts The Seconds

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in 1hz signal, 2025 One Hertz Contest, clock hacks, contests, germanium, phase shift oscillator

Listen To The Sound Of The Crystals

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in 32.768 kHz, clock hacks, crystal, frequency

Crunching The News For Fun And Little Profit

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in Computer Science, Featured, Interest, literature, News, Original Art

The Hackaday Summer Reading List: No AI Involvement, Guaranteed

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in books, Featured, Interest, reading, Reviews, summer reading

A Feast Of 1970s Gaming History, And An 8080 Arcade Board

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in 8080, arcade, blasto, Gremlin, retrocomputing, sega

Track Your GitHub Activity With This E-Ink Display

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Jenny List

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→

Posted in e-paper, ESP32, github, Microcontrollers

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