Collaborate Disseminate
Earlier this year Zilog stopped production of the classic 40-pin DIP Z80 microprocessor, a move that brought a tear to the eye of retro computing enthusiasts everywhere. This chip had …read more Continue reading No Z80? No Problem!
Sometimes those moments arise when a new device comes on the market and hardware hackers immediately take to it. Over a few days, an observer can watch them reverse engineer …read more Continue reading Real Time Hacking Of A Supermarket Toy
Your shiny new personal electronic device is likely to be designed solely as an app platform to run the products of faceless corporations, so the story goes, and therefore has …read more Continue reading The Apple Watch As An Ammeter
In the early 1990s I was privileged enough to be immersed in the world of technology during the exciting period that gave birth to the World Wide Web, and I …read more Continue reading A Look At The Small Web, Part 1
Writing for Hackaday involves drinking from the firehose of tech news, and seeing the latest and greatest of new projects and happenings in the world of hardware. But sometimes you …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday, What’s Next?
As we slowly wean ourselves away from our centuries-long love affair with fossil fuels in an attempt to reduce CO2 emissions and combat global warming, there has been a rapid …read more Continue reading If Wood Isn’t The Biomass Answer, What Is?
Core memory, magnetized memory using tiny magnetic rings suspended on a grid of wires, is now more than five decades obsolete, yet it exerts a fascination for hardware hackers still. …read more Continue reading A Nibble Of Core Memory, In An SAO
For all the advances in digital photography, there remains a mystique for photographers and filmmakers about chemical film. Using it presents an artistic and technical challenge, and it lends an …read more Continue reading Film, As You Have Never Had It Explained Before
If you follow the world of clean energy, you will probably have read all about the so-called hydrogen future and the hydrogen economy. The gas can easily be made from …read more Continue reading Swiss Researchers May Have Solved Hydrogen Storage
For almost as long as there have been microcomputers, there have been attempts with varying success to make tiny handheld microcomputers. Sometimes these have been very good, and other times …read more Continue reading CL-32: The Minimum Possible For a Useful Handheld Computer