Collaborate Disseminate
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
Picture this: It’s the end of the year, and a few hardy souls gather in a hackerspace to enjoy a bit of seasonal food and hang out. Conversation turns to …read more Continue reading New Years Circuit Challenge: Make This RFID Circuit
The moment everyone has been talking about for years has finally arrived, the European Union’s mandating of USB charging on all portable electronic devices is now in force. While it …read more Continue reading When The EU Speaks, Everyone Charges The Same Way
Social media microblogging has brought us many annoying things, but some of the good things that have come to us through its seductive scrolling are those ad-hoc interest based communities …read more Continue reading Release Your Inner Ansel Adams With The Shitty Camera Challenge
There was a brief period through the 1960s into the 1970s when the last word in electronics was the calculator. New models sold for hundreds of dollars, and owning one …read more Continue reading A Mechanical Calculator For The Modern Age
Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win. [Hennung Paul] ordered a Wavlink WL-WN586X3 for the princely …read more Continue reading OpenWRT, But On An Unsupported Router
Despite the latest and greatest Intel-derived computers having multi-core 64-bit processors and unimaginably fast peripherals, at heart they all still retain a compatibility that goes back to the original 8086. …read more Continue reading When It Comes To DOS, Don’t Forget DR-DOS.
There are many retrocomputer emulation projects out there, and given the relative fragility of the original machines as they enter their fifth decade, emulation seems to be the most common …read more Continue reading A Pi Pico Makes A Spectrum Laptop
Energy harvesting, the practice of scavenging ambient electromagnetic fields, light, or other energy sources, is a fascinating subject that we don’t see enough of here at Hackaday. It’s pleasing then …read more Continue reading Where This Xmas Card’s Going, We Don’t Need Batteries!
For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of 8-bit machines through the middle of the decade was to …read more Continue reading The Last Acorn BBC Computer Wasn’t a BBC Micro