Collaborate Disseminate
If you paid attention to advertising in 1980s Britain, you were never far from Economy 7. It was the magic way to heat your house for less, using storage heaters …read more Continue reading Farewell Economy 7, a Casualty of the Long Wave Switch-Off
The tech press has been full of announcements over the last day or two regarding GPMI. It’s a new standard with the backing of a range of Chinese hardware companies, …read more Continue reading Everyone’s Talking GPMI, Should you?
Vibe coding is the buzzword of the moment. What is it? The practice of writing software by describing the problem to an AI large language model and using the code …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Vibe Coding
Many years ago, audio equipment came with a tone control, a simple RC filter that would cut or boost the bass to taste. As time passed, this was split into …read more Continue reading Designing A Tone Control Properly
Should you travel around Europe, you may notice that things in France are ever so slightly different. Not necessarily better or worse, simply that the French prefer to plough their …read more Continue reading The 1980s Computer, French Style
Afficionados of vintage electric organs will know about the Melotron, an instrument from the 1960s that had pre-recorded sounds on a bank of tape loops. A real Melotron in working …read more Continue reading A Tiny Tape Synth
Over the history of the Web, we have seen several major shifts in browsing software. If you’re old enough to have used NCSA Mosaic or any of the other early …read more Continue reading Which Browser Should I Use In 2025?
It’s likely that among the readers of this article there will be many who collect something. Whether it’s rare early LEDs or first-year-of-manufacture microprocessors, you’ll scour the internet to find …read more Continue reading A Tale Of Nuclear Shenanigans From Down Under
If Clive Sinclair’s genius in consumer electronics was in using ingenious hacks to make cheaper parts do greater things, then his Amstrad competitor Alan Sugar’s was in selling decade-old technology …read more Continue reading An Amstrad PCW Receives A Bit Of Love
The F-number of a photographic lens is a measure of its light-gathering ability, and is expressed as its aperture diameter divided by its focal length. Lenses with low F-numbers are …read more Continue reading A Low F Number Lens, From Scratch