Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a section of our community who concern themselves with the technological aspects of preparing for an uncertain future, and for them a significant proportion of effort goes in to …read more Continue reading As The World Burns, At least You’ll Have Secure Messaging
There was a period in the 1990s when it seemed like the personal data assistant (PDA) was going to be the device of the future. If you were lucky you …read more Continue reading An Awful 1990s PDA Delivers AI Wisdom
For a while now part of my email signature has been a quote from a Hackaday commenter insinuating that an article I wrote was created by a “Dumb AI”. You …read more Continue reading ChatGPT & Me. ChatGPT Is Me!
Metalized Mylar “space blankets” are sold as a survivalist’s accessory, primarily due to their propensity for reflecting heat. They’re pretty cheap, and [HamJazz] has performed some experiments on their RF …read more Continue reading Mylar Space Blankets As RF Reflectors
It was such an innocent purchase, a slightly grubby and scuffed grey plastic box with the word “P O L A R O I D” intriguingly printed along its top …read more Continue reading Falling Down The Land Camera Rabbit Hole
The life of a Hackaday writer often involves hours spent at a computer searching for all the cool hacks you love, but its perks come in not being tied to …read more Continue reading Trackside Observations Of A Rail Power Enthusiast
It’s fair to say that QR codes are a technology that has finally come of age. A decade or more ago they were a little over-hyped and sometimes used in …read more Continue reading Studying QR Code Degradation
The Thinkpad line of laptops, originally from IBM, and then from Lenovo, have long been the choice of many in our community. They offer a level of robustness and reliability …read more Continue reading Another Old ThinkPad Gets A New Motherboard
The Sinclair C5 was Sir Clive’s famous first venture into electric mobility, a recumbent electric-assisted tricycle which would have been hardly unusual in 2025. In 1985, though, the C5 was …read more Continue reading Restoring A Sinclair C5 For The Road
The Intel 8051 series of 8-bit microcontrollers is long-discontinued by its original manufacturer, but lives on as a core included in all manner of more recent chips. It’s easy to …read more Continue reading A Single Chip Computer For The 8051 Generation