Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve owned a CD player or other piece of consumer digital audio gear manufactured since the 1980s, the chances are it has a TOSLINK port on the back. This …read more Continue reading 38C3: It’s TOSLINK, Over Long Distance Fibre
Face it, we’ve all been there, in a crowded workshop building something, and horror of horrors, things are going to get a little… windy. Do you try to drop it …read more Continue reading Toot-B-Gone, With The FartMaster 3000
If you’ve used the Espressif series of processors, perhaps you’ll have heard of their upcoming ESP32-P4. This is an application processor, with dual RISC-V cores at 400 MHz, and save …read more Continue reading One To Watch For In 2025: Tanmatsu
Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA …read more Continue reading Thirty Years Later, The Windows 3.1 Video Driver You Needed
In the quest for an accurate frequency standard there are many options depending on your budget, but one of the most affordable is an oven controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO). [RF …read more Continue reading Is a Cheap Frequency Standard Worth It?
We love electronic conference badges here at Hackaday, but it’s undeniable that many of them end up gathering dust after the event. Most of them are usable as development boards …read more Continue reading A New Life For a Conference Badge, Weighing Bees
The art of writing has become a cluttered one to follow, typically these days through a graphical word processor. There may be a virtual page in front of you, but …read more Continue reading The Ultimate Distraction Free Writing Environment
We all know that “Can it run Doom?” is the first question of a hardware hacker. The 1993 first person shooter from id Software defined an entire genre of games, …read more Continue reading Is There Nothing DOOM Can’t Do?
The world of audio has produced a variety of different loudspeaker designs over the last century, though it’s fair to say that the trusty moving coil reigns supreme. That hasn’t …read more Continue reading A Foil Tweeter, Sound From Kitchen Consumables
One of the longest running jokes in our sphere is that the coming year will finally be the year of “Linux on the Desktop.” Never mind that the erosion of …read more Continue reading Why 2025 Will Not Be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop