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Few things are as satisfying to watch as a good retrocomputer restoration project – we’re always happy to see someone bring a rusty old Commodore, Apple or Atari back to …read more Continue reading Restored Amiga 500 is Blue – and Glows in the Dark
Measuring a voltage is pretty easy: just place your multimeter’s probes across the relevant pins and read the value. Probing currents is a bit trickier, since you need to open …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Pi Pico Measures Volts, Amps and Watts
Many early home video game consoles were developed by American and Japanese companies: think Nintendo, Commodore, and Atari. But on the other side of the Iron Curtain, which was still …read more Continue reading Soviet-Era Pong Console is Easy to Repair
Solar panels are a great way to generate clean electricity, but require some energy storage mechanism if you also want to use their power at night. This can be a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Supercapacitors Let Solar Speaker Work in Darkness
Today, we’re surrounded by talking computers and clever AI systems that a few decades ago only existed in science fiction. But they definitely looked different back then: instead of a …read more Continue reading Animatronic Alexa Gives Amazon’s Echo a Face
Although watching and editing videos may be among the primary tasks of many PCs today, it wasn’t that long ago that working with video required powerful processors and expensive video …read more Continue reading Hacking the Commodore 128 to Capture Almost Real-Time Video
Removing weeds is a chore few gardeners enjoy, as it typically involves long sessions of kneeling in the dirt and digging around for anything you don’t remember planting. Herbicides also …read more Continue reading Gardening Robot Uses Sunlight to Incinerate Weeds
The microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s turned computers from expensive machines aimed at professionals into consumer products found in the average household. But there always remained a market …read more Continue reading Repairing a $25,000 HP Workstation to Run Pac-Man
Universal remotes are extremely convenient if they work correctly. But setting them up can be quite a hassle: often, you need to browse through long lists of TV models, key …read more Continue reading The Remoteduino Nano is a Tiny IR Remote That’s Truly Universal
The primary purpose of a wristwatch is to tell the time, which pretty much any watch does perfectly fine. It’s in the aesthetics, as well as features other than time-telling, …read more Continue reading The Time Machine Mk. 8 is a Sleek Smartwatch With Retro Styling