Collaborate Disseminate
Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term …read more Continue reading This Relay Computer Has Magnetic Tape Storage
When a man wearing an Atari T-shirt tells you he’s buying Commodore it sounds like the plot for an improbable 1980s movie in which Nolan Bushnell and Jack Tramiel do …read more Continue reading Let’s Buy Commodore! Well, Somebody Is.
When you watch a movie and see those perfect focus switches or zooms, the chances are you’re not seeing the result of the cameraman or focus operator manually moving the …read more Continue reading Printed Focus Control for Pro Style Cinematography
Sometimes a project forms itself around a component rather than an idea, and thus it was that [Maximilien] found himself building a data rate monitor for the connection between two …read more Continue reading A Network Status Panel The Way It Should Be
We recently published an affectionate look at a Polaroid Land camera, whose peel-apart instant film is long out of production except for a very few single exposure packs form a …read more Continue reading In Film, What’s Old May Still Be New Again
If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units …read more Continue reading A Steady Vacuum For The Fastest Cassette Tape Drive Ever
We’re suckers for a vintage electronic teardown here at Hackaday, and thus it’s pleasing to see [Thomas Scherrer OZ2CPU] with a 1962 AEG oscilloscope on his bench. It’s definitely seen …read more Continue reading A Vintage ‘Scope Comes Back To Life
If you need to weigh your pet, you’ll soon find that getting an animal to stand on a weighing machine to order is very difficult indeed. If the critter in …read more Continue reading 2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Weigh Your Dog The Easy Way
It’s always nice to see new developments in the world of electronic badges, and while there are events and badge teams pushing the technological envelope there’s still plenty of scope …read more Continue reading Plenty Of LEDs And Useful Too: The 2025 DORS/CLUC Badge
Some cats are what you might call indoor cats, happy to stretch out in the lap of indoor luxury and never bother themselves with the inclement outdoors again. Others however …read more Continue reading 2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Keep The Prey At Bay With The Cat Valve