Collaborate Disseminate
The widespread availability of inexpensive 3D printers has brought about a revolution in what can be easily made at home. However these creations aren’t perfect, particularly when it comes to …read more Continue reading Gas-Tight FDM 3D Printing Is Within Your Grasp
Hardware hackers come from a variety of backgrounds, but among us there remains a significant number whose taste for making things was forged through growing up in a farm environment. …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: TVO
Computer gaming history is littered with tales of fabled lost hardware and software. Some of them are very famous such as the E.T. cartridges buried in a desert landfill or …read more Continue reading Tarzan, Lost Since 1983, Swings Back Onto The Atari 2600
Making a software defined radio (SDR) receiver is a relatively straightforward process, given the right radio front end electronics and analogue-to-digital converters. Two separate data streams are generated using clocks …read more Continue reading The Pi Pico, An SDR Receiver Front End
To be an Amiga fan during the dying days of the hardware platform back in the mid 1990s was to have a bleak existence indeed. Commodore had squandered what was …read more Continue reading The Amiga We All Wanted In 1993
There’s an oft-quoted maxim that youngsters growing up on farms have a much stronger immune system than those growing up in cities. The idea is that they are exposed to …read more Continue reading Pasteurisation: Probably Why You Survived Childhood
A large hacker camp such as EMF 2024 always brings unexpected delights, and one of those could be found in the Null Sector cyberpunk zone: a fully functional Strowger mechanical …read more Continue reading A Human-Sized Strowger Telephone Exchange
This is being written in a tent in a field in Herefordshire, one of the English counties that borders Wales. It’s the site of Electromagnetic Field, this year’s large European …read more Continue reading A Treasure Trove In An English Field
Wandering round the field at EMF Camp, our eye was caught by an unusual sight, at least to European eyes. The type of campervan body which sits on the back …read more Continue reading This Mobile Hackerspace Can Be Yours
The mobile phone may be sweeping away the traditional wired phone, but that doesn’t change the fascinating history and technology of the older device. At [This Museum Is Not Obsolete] …read more Continue reading Why Your Old Phone Sounded The Way It Did