Collaborate Disseminate
The sad reality is that all consumer electronics are going to be e-waste eventually. [Cory Whitesell] was determined his old NEC ProSpeed 286 Laptop wouldn’t meet that fate until absolutely …read more Continue reading 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: NEC 286 Laptop Rides Again
As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margret Hamilton was responsible for the software for the Apollo program. The code she was responsible for ran …read more Continue reading Margret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer, Dies Aged 90
Like more than a few of us , [Kevin Noki] is sick of being pulled out of flow state by that annoyingly addictive black rectangle we all carry around. His …read more Continue reading The 80s Called: They Say This DIY Phone Is, Like, Totally Rad
There comes a point where you have to acknowledge that your beloved console is out of date and– barring the odd homebrew title– won’t be playing new games ever again. …read more Continue reading Streaming Games Means the Nintendo DSi Will Never Be Obsolete
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is one of those things that seems too wacky to be true. Depression not responding to treatment? Let’s smack you upside the head with strong magnetic fields! …read more Continue reading Don’t Try this At Home, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Edition
![[Avery] standing inside the inflating envelope of his airship](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/thermal-airship2.jpg?w=800)
We’ve had a lot of flying hacks here over the years, and that includes just about any way to get airborne you can think of — but very few of …read more Continue reading Don’t Worry, This R/C Airship is Supposed To Be On Fire
There’s one thing [Silent H] wants you to know before you watch his video about making biodiesel, embedded below: he started this project before he’d even heard of the Strait …read more Continue reading DIY Algae Biodiesel is Harder Than You Think
Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine …read more Continue reading Ambition, Thy Name is a 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet
It must be April in October again, because Google Japan has a new, hilariously impractical reimagining of the keyboard: a conveyor belt. This time it’s on GitHub with firmware, STLs, …read more Continue reading Conveyor Belt GBoard Brings the Keys to You
Back in the old days the IBM-PC, like most of its contemporary computers, shipped with BASIC in ROM. Even after it stopped living in ROM, IBM-Compatibles shipped with GW-BASIC, and …read more Continue reading It’s GW-BASIC, Jim, But Not as We Know It