Collaborate Disseminate
The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of the most interesting might-have-beens was the CBS field-sequential system. This was a rival to the …read more Continue reading How Would a Field Sequential Home Computer Have Worked?
When building a radio transmitter, unless it’s a very small one indeed, there’s a need for an amplifier before the antenna. This is usually referred to as the power amplifier, …read more Continue reading A Radio Power Amplifier for Not a Lot
There’s a meme which may have a basis in truth, of a teenager left clueless when presented with a rotary telephone. The dial, in reality a mechanical pulse chain generator, …read more Continue reading A Rotary Dial The 3D Printed Way
Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power strips to run them all? [Jeroen Brinkman] made his more …read more Continue reading Power Control for a Busy Workbench
A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the machines of today. She …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau of Productivity?
The various Raspberry Pi camera modules have become the default digital camera hacker’s tool, and have appeared in a huge number of designs over the past decade. They’re versatile and …read more Continue reading Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way
Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter has been pressed. You can buy instant cameras and film …read more Continue reading Instant Photography For The Maker
Vibe coding is all the rage at the moment if you follow certain parts of the Internet. It’s very easy to dunk upon it, whether it’s to mock the sea …read more Continue reading A Live ISO For Those Vibe Coding Experiments
Last summer we took a look at FreeDOS as part of the Daily Drivers series, and found a faster and more complete successor to the DOS of old. The sojourn …read more Continue reading Success With FreeDOS on a Modern Platform
One of the ongoing rumors and scandals in professional cycle sport concerns “motor doping” — the practice of concealing an electric motor in a bicycle to provide the rider with …read more Continue reading The Perfect Cheat’s Racing Bicycle