Collaborate Disseminate
Perhaps the second most famous law in electronics after Ohm’s law is Moore’s law: the number of transistors that can be made on an integrated circuit doubles every two years …read more Continue reading Smaller is Sometimes Better: Why Electronic Components are So Tiny
Here at Hackaday we love projects that are so well-documented that you can spend days reading up on what the designer has achieved. [John Lonergan] didn’t disappoint when he designed …read more Continue reading SPAM-1 is a Well-Documented Discrete CPU With an Impressive Software Library
Most readers of Hackaday will be well aware of the current shortages of semiconductors and especially GPUs. Whether you’re planning to build a state-of-the art gaming PC, a mining rig …read more Continue reading 3D-printed Fan Mount Keeps Server GPU Cool in Desktop Case
Although the market for hand-drawn portraits largely collapsed following the invention of photography, there’s something magical about watching an artist create a lifelike image using nothing but a pencil, some …read more Continue reading Drawing Robot Creates Portraits Using Pen, Paper and Algorithms
In the early 1980s cassette tapes were the standard storage medium for home computer users; readers of a certain age will remember fiddling with audio jacks, tape counters and signal …read more Continue reading Audio Tape Interface Revives Microcassettes as Storage Medium
Video games are great and all, but sometimes you just want the thrill of manipulating actual objects in addition to watching action on a screen. This must have been the …read more Continue reading Laser Pointer and Arduino Make a Minimalistic Shooting Game
The classic Game Boy remains a firm favorite in the realm of retrocomputing. Revolutionary as it was at the time, by today’s standards its display is rather primitive, with no …read more Continue reading FPGA Boards Add VGA and HMDI Interfaces to the Original Game Boy
We’ve all learned in primary school art classes that blue and yellow make green, and that adding a little black to a color will make it darker. But what if …read more Continue reading The M5Stack Color Maker Can Mix Paint to Match Your Subject
“Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke”. That’s what we guess [Frans Bos] has been thinking for the past few decades, as he kept using his Atari ST to run …read more Continue reading Atari ST Still Manages Campground Reservations After 36 Years
Building a CPU out of logic gates is a great way to learn about the inner workings of microprocessors, and we’ve seen several impressive projects in this area. [c0pperdragon] set …read more Continue reading BreadBin is an 8-bit TTL CPU on a Breadboard, in a Bread Bin