Collaborate Disseminate
Zinc air batteries have been a familiar sight for decades in the world of photography, where they provided an environmentally less dangerous alternative to mercury cells. They operate by the …read more Continue reading A ZInc Air Battery You Can Make Yourself
With so many online messaging services to choose from it’s almost as though the daddy of them all, email, has faded into the background as something you only use for …read more Continue reading The Email Of The Future In 1986
We have probably all at some point had to replace a peripheral not because it is faulty, but because it is no longer supported by our operating system. It’s especially …read more Continue reading Bring Back That Aged Scanner, in Your Browser
An old-style graphics system as found on many 8-bit computers and on early PC graphics cards drew its characters by retrieving their bitmaps from a ROM. With a little sideways …read more Continue reading CGA As You Have Never Seen It Before
Many of us have made electric transport of some form, whether a Hacky Racer, and e-bike, a go-kart, or whatever. We have invariably bought a motor, or if we are …read more Continue reading An E-Bike Motor From First Principles
The world of open source — and in particular open source licenses — is something we cover regularly here at Hackaday with respect to hardware and software, but it’s not …read more Continue reading British Street Addresses, When Licenses Collide
It’s possible that among Hackaday readers are the largest community of people who have designed their own CPU in the world. We have featured many here, but it’s possible that …read more Continue reading Build The CPU, Then Build The Calculator
In the time Hackaday has been in existence we must have brought you plenty of projects housed in Altoids tins, as well as a sizeable number of cyberdecks. But until …read more Continue reading A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in an Altoids Tin
As the foremost boffins of Europe toil deep underneath the border between Switzerland and France in their never-ending quest to truly understand the fabric of the Universe, they rely on …read more Continue reading Another Gift To The World From CERN: Their Entire Set Of KiCad Libraries
A computer the size of a credit card is nothing new. There have been many single-board computers following the familiar dimensions. [Krauseler]’s credit card computer is different, though. It packs …read more Continue reading This Credit Card Computer Follows All Dimensions