Collaborate Disseminate
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
In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images …read more Continue reading Chirality Could Kill Us All, If We Let It
The web browser started life as a relatively simple hypertext reading application, but over the 30+ years since the first one displayed a simple CERN web page it has been …read more Continue reading Use Your RTL, In The Browser
As a British taxpayer it’s reassuring to know that over in Cheltenham there’s a big round building full of people dedicated to keeping us safe. GCHQ is the nation’s electronic …read more Continue reading British Spooks Issue Yearly Teaser
The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that …read more Continue reading Ore To Iron In A Few Seconds: New Chinese Process Will Revolutionise Smelting
Having a penchant for cheap second-hand cameras can lead to all manner of interesting equipment. You never know what the next second-hand store will provide, and thus everything from good …read more Continue reading Disc Film,When Kodak Pushed Convenience Too Far
Ah, the 1990s. It was a simpler time, when the web was going to be democratic and decentralised, you could connect your Windows 95 PC to the internet without worrying …read more Continue reading Magic Eye Images In Your Spreadsheet
The widely quoted carrot factoid that the vegetable’s orange colour is the result of patriotic Dutch farmers breeding them that way may be an urban myth, but it’s certainly true …read more Continue reading The Audiophile Carrot