Collaborate Disseminate
If you used the internet at home a couple of decades or more ago, you’ll know the characteristic sound of a modem connecting to its dial-up server. That noise is …read more Continue reading End Of The Eternal September, As AOL Discontinues Dial-Up
Despite the availability of ready-made displays never being better, there are still some hardy experimenters who take on the challenge of making their own. In [Ben Holmen]’s case the display …read more Continue reading The Kilopixel Display
On an old fashioned bench a signal generator was once an indispensable instrument, but has now largely been supplanted by the more versatile function generator. Sometimes there’s a less demanding …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: Square Waves The Way You Want ‘Em
When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my …read more Continue reading Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4
Making an LED blink is usually achieved by interrupting its power supply, This can be achieved through any number of oscillator circuits, or even by means of a mechanical system …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: Blinking an LED the Very Old Fashioned Way
The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it as the beating heart of so many …read more Continue reading Happy Birthday 6502
BornHack is a week-long summer hacker camp in a forest on the Danish island of Fyn, that consistently delivers a very pleasant experience for those prepared to make the journey. …read more Continue reading Two For The Price Of One: BornHack 2024 And 2025 Badges
Another week, another Hackaday podcast, and for this one Elliot is joined by Jenny List, fresh from the BornHack hacker camp in Denmark. There’s a definite metal working flavour to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Ep 331: Clever Machine Tools, Storing Data in Birds, and the Ultimate Cyberdeck
When a tipster came to us with the line “One dollar BASIC computer”, it intrigued us enough to have a good look at [Stan6314]’s TinyBasRV computer. It’s a small PCB …read more Continue reading A Proper Computer For a Dollar?
A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and proclaim how nice a place it all is, …read more Continue reading When Online Safety Means Surrendering Your ID, What Can You Do?