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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) generated considerable excitement when its first test images were released earlier this year: they proved that the instrument was working and helped its engineers …read more Continue reading Peer Into Space Through This James Webb-Style Hexagonal Mirror
The Super NES is arguably the best known console of the 16-bit era. It typically came in the form of a grey box with either grey or purple buttons, and …read more Continue reading The SF1 Mini is a Homebrew Version of an Obscure Nintendo Console
If you like the 1970s aesthetic but think bell-bottoms, big hair and psychedelic wallpaper are a bit too much in this day and age, you might want to have a …read more Continue reading Never Miss an Email With This 1970s Style Desktop Notifier
If you’re a clock aficionado and have ever visited Berlin, you’re probably familiar with the Berlin Clock on Budapester Straße: a minimalist design of yellow and orange lights that displays …read more Continue reading Tiny Berlin Clock Replica Also Counts Seconds
If you’ve ever used a home computer from the late 1970s or early 1980s, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the slow speed of their user interfaces. Even listing the …read more Continue reading BlixTerm Brings Full-Speed YouTube Video to the Commodore PET
When [bornach] browsed through his office’s free-cycling box he found an old novelty toy that lets you play simple tunes on miniature steel drums. Such a thing is probably fun …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: Miniature Steel Drums Become Rotary Mouse Controllers
Like today’s Intel-AMD duopoly, the market for home computer CPUs in the 1970s and ’80s was dominated by two players: Zilog with their Z80, and MOS Technology with their 6502 …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: The Baffatari 2600 Adds Atari Compatibility to Retrocomputers
For some power users, the one-hundred-and-something keys on regular keyboards just aren’t enough for their everyday tasks. Macro keypads are a popular way of extending one’s input capabilities, and there …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: The LowPow ShortKeyboard Can Work on Your Desk or Out in the Field
Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 “Mother of all Demos” introduced the world to a whole range of technologies we take for granted today, the most prominent being his great invention, the computer …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: Chorded Keyset Recreates Engelbart’s Vision
Multispectral imaging, or photography using wavelengths other than those in ordinary visible light, has various applications ranging from earth observation to forgery detection in art. For example, titanium white and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Multispectral Smartphone Camera Reveals Paintings’ Inner Secrets