Collaborate Disseminate
The bicycle is an invention that has not changed in its fundamentals since the first recognisably modern machines appeared in the closing years of the 19th century. Its frame uses …read more Continue reading Challenging The Way We Pedal
There comes a point in everybody’s life when things that they were a part of are presented as history, and for the 8-bit generation, that time is now. It’s interesting …read more Continue reading Remembering the BBC Computer Literacy Project
Most of us will know that Apple’s precursor to the Macintosh series of computers was a machine called the Lisa. Something of a behemoth compared to those early Macs, it …read more Continue reading It’s an Apple Lisa, on a FPGA
Recently we featured an unusual Commodore 8-bit computer on the bench of [Tynemouth Software] — a Commodore 64 in a PET case. One of the unique parts it had was …read more Continue reading How Commodore Made a Sync Splitter
A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for the Arduino Uno. It’s a neat idea, so it’s hardly …read more Continue reading The ESP8266 Gets An OS, and it’s familiar
A pinhole camera is almost a rite of passage in photography, given that you can make one so easily with little more than a cardboard box and enough tape to …read more Continue reading Wigglegrams with a Pinhole Camera
Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the target. With a geostationary satellite the mount is either fixed …read more Continue reading This Az-El Mount Is Worth Following
There are all manner of musical synthesis techniques, from the early electromechanical instruments through analogue tape systhesis, the all-electronic waveform synthesisers of the 1960s onwards, and Yamaha’s FM systhesis of …read more Continue reading Taking Polyphony to a New Level
It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as …read more Continue reading AI On Every Machine: The LLM You Probably Didn’t Want
It’s nice to hide away in our little corner of the internet and talk tech, safely away from the turmoil of world events. Sometimes though, geopolitics intrude even into our …read more Continue reading You’ve Seen the Chip Shortage and the Memory Shortage, Now Prepare For The PCB Shortage