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Flexible printed circuit boards are a fascinating technique for making electronics venture beyond the two-dimensional, but surprisingly they’re not something many of us have worked with. [Jessica Stanley] gave a …read more Continue reading Flexible PCBs: Not Only For The Few
A ballerina music box is a charming ornament, but it remains one that is limited by its mechanism to a very short performance. [ShielaDixon] has one, and decided to make …read more Continue reading A Music Box With A Very Modern Heart
A problem facing the designers of event badges is this: what happens to the badge after the event? It’s one that designers have tried to solve in many ways with …read more Continue reading The BornHack 2026 Cyber Ægg Is A Badge With A Life Afterwards
Back in the days when an integrated circuit meant a simple but expensive device such as a 741 or a 555, most electronics enthusiasts made do with discrete transistor circuits. …read more Continue reading The Seemingly Impossible Oscillator
Many older hackers will have at some point gotten rid of an old piece of hardware that they later ended up regretting. All those ISA cards were next to useless …read more Continue reading Can’t Find That ISA Sound Card? No Worries!
There was a time in the early 1980s when it was common to see home made keyboards for 8-bit machines that came with membrane or rubber keyboards. Though we’ve seen …read more Continue reading It’s A Spectrum, With An RP2350 ULA
There was a time in the early 1980s when it was common to see home made keyboards for 8-bit machines that came with membrane or rubber keyboards. Though we’ve seen …read more Continue reading It’s A Spectrum, With An RP2350 ULA
Online publications sometimes work with sponsors. Over at the Autopian, they landed a sponsorship deal with eBay, but due to an unguarded comment, fulfilling the sponsor’s requirements turned out to …read more Continue reading The First New WW2 Jeep Since 1945
This week’s podcast sees Elliot joined by Jenny List, as both suffer silently in the European summer heat because the sound of a desk fan would come over on the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode Ep 377: Parallel Pixels, Wiggly Consoles, and Seven Segments
The GeekMagic SmallTV is as its name suggests, a tiny, vaguely TV-styled, device with a screen, that’s sold as a desktop notifier. Depending on the firmware running on the device …read more Continue reading A Super Cheap Desk Toy Becomes a Hackable Desktop Notifier