Collaborate Disseminate
When using older computers there comes a point at which modern software drops support, as for example is happening with builds for Windows XP. Every now and then though, along …read more Continue reading A Modern Web Browser For Classic Mac OS
The use of modern microcontrollers as add-on peripherals for 1980s home computers has delivered significant benefits and capabilities unimaginable in the days when those machines were new. A great example …read more Continue reading An Atic Atac Minimap For The ZX Spectrum
It’s become a familiar theme over the last couple of decades — hardware is rendered useless when its manufacturer pulls the cloud service on which it depends. This is particularly …read more Continue reading Bring Back Your Bose with an ESP32
While most of us don’t design aircraft or racing cars, it’s likely that we’re still fascinated by some of the aerodynamic studies behind them. But a full-sized wind tunnel is …read more Continue reading See Aerodynamics in Action with a Desktop Wind Tunnel
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