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By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components …read more Continue reading A General Purpose Pi Zero Device for IoT
If you’ve ever taken a close look at a vacuum tube, you’ll have seen the seals around the pins that keep everything air-tight while providing the the device’s electrical contacts. …read more Continue reading The Problem of Making a Good Metal-To-Glass Seal
Every now and then a project comes into the Hackaday feed that has so many levels of wrong about it that you really shouldn’t do it at home, but is …read more Continue reading This Alarm Clock Has The Capacity To Wake You
Every month or so we bring you a Jenny’s Daily Drivers article, in which we share with you an esoteric OS and try to use it for the everyday work of …read more Continue reading GentleOS, A Simple OS For Your Old PC
Our recently concluded event in Europe saw the return of the Hackaday Communicator badge — a stylish handheld gadget with a QWERTY keyboard, a LoRa radio, and an ESP32. It …read more Continue reading The Hackaday Communicator Badge, Re-Imagined With New Firmware
If you work with radio, the chances are that before too long you’ll be winding an inductor. At radio frequencies these won’t be big chunky transformer style chokes, but often …read more Continue reading Mechanical Stability For Your Coils
A common complaint about the rise of commercial AI services is that they are power-hungry and thus damage the environment. If this concerns you then [Squeezlabs] has the solution, in …read more Continue reading AI The Truly Environmentally Friendly Way
At various times in the history of desktop computing, the market has stubbornly refused to follow the path dictated for it by a dominant manufacturer. IBM’s move to MCA in …read more Continue reading Giving a Power Mac G4 a USB Upgrade, For Free!
It’s well known that the difference in executable size between a compiled binary and one hand-written in optimized assembler will be significant. The compiler brings in all manner of boilerplate …read more Continue reading How Small Can You Make A C Executable?
One of the delights of our tips line is that from time to time it brings us retrocomputing hardware that, despite years of reporting, we were not aware existed. [Hitmanmcc] …read more Continue reading A New Life For a Rare Console