Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC
One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you never quite know what will come your way. …read more Continue reading Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC
Author Archives: Jenny List
An Analog Synth For The Modern World
We cover so many projects here at Hackaday that lead the author down a rabbit hole of technological investigation that distracts us from the task of bringing them to you. …read more Continue reading An Analog Synth For The Modern World
The Atari Jaguar Runs Linux
Among the many forgotten might-have-beens of the games console world, the Atari Jaguar occupies a special place. It was the final gasp of Atari Corporation, the Jack Tramiel-era incarnation of …read more Continue reading The Atari Jaguar Runs Linux
When An Engineering Education Doesn’t Teach You How To Really Make Anything
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
Why the NES Put Out a Wobbly Picture
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
The Coolest Hat At The Hacker Camp
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
Old Midi Instruments Don’t Like Modern Midi. What’s To Be Done?
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?
The Persistent Display We Never Got
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
Time Never Moves Slowly With This Clock
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
The Organ That Forgot To Use Transistors
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