Collaborate Disseminate
When we think of 8-bit computers, it’s natural to start with home computers. That’s where they live on in the collective memory. But a Z80, a 6502, or similar was …read more Continue reading Take A Little Bit Of Acorn To Work
Scanning a film negative is as simple as holding it up against a light source and photographing the result. But should you try such a straightforward method with color negatives …read more Continue reading Scanning Film The Way It Was Meant To Be
Toaster oven reflow projects are such a done deal that there should be nothing new in one here in 2025. Take a toaster oven, an Arduino, and a thermocouple, and …read more Continue reading Half The Reflow Oven You Expected
The cartridge based game consoles of decades ago had a relatively simple modus operandi — they would run a program stored in a ROM in the cartridge, and on the …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Turns Atari 2600 into a Lo-fi Photo Frame
Many of us could have been lucky enough to have some form of pedal go-kart in our formative years, and among such lucky children there can have been few who …read more Continue reading Admit it. You Want This Go-Kart
The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display — uniquely for a home system, it painted its graphics to …read more Continue reading The Vectrex Home Computer You Never Had
We’re firmly in Europe this week on the Hackaday podcast, as Elliot Williams and Jenny List are freshly returned from Berlin and Hackaday Europe. A few days of mingling with …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 313: Capacitor Plague, Wireless Power, and Tiny Everything
The Cheap Yellow Display may not be the fastest of ESP32 boards with its older model chip and 4 MB of memory, but its low price and useful array of …read more Continue reading Three SPI Busses Are One Too Many on This Cheap Yellow Display
A decade ago, smartwatches were an unexplored avenue full of exotic promise. There were bleeding-edge and eye-wateringly expensive platforms from the likes of Samsung or Apple, but for the more …read more Continue reading Pick Up A Pebble Again
For those of us lucky enough to have been at Hackaday Europe in Berlin, there was a feast of hacks at our disposal. Among them was [Vladimir Divic]’s gradients game, …read more Continue reading This M5Stack Game Is Surprisingly Addictive