Collaborate Disseminate
The Z80 has been gone a couple of years now, but it’s very much not forgotten. Still, the day when new-old-stock and salvaged DIP-40 packaged Z80s will be hard to …read more Continue reading PicoZ80 is a Drop-in Replacement for Everyone’s Favorite Zilog CPU
We don’t usually speculate on the true identity of the hackers behind these projects, but when [TN666]’s accoustic drone-detector crossed our desk with the name “Batear”, we couldn’t help but …read more Continue reading Acoustic Drone Detection On the Cheap with ESP32
Odds are, you’ve taken pills before; it’s a statistical certainty that some of you reading this took several this morning. Whenever you do, you’re at the mercy of the manufacturer: …read more Continue reading IDing Counterfeit Drugs Might Be Easier Than You Think
The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, …read more Continue reading Arduino Code? On my 8051? It’s More Likely Than You Think
Nothing lasts forever, but you’d think the leaded-glass face of a CRT would not be a place you’re likely to see Father Time causing failures. Alas, the particle accelerators we …read more Continue reading Resin Injection CRT Cataract Surgery On Macintosh Monitor
We’re not exactly worried about Armageddon here at Hackaday, but should we end up facing the end of the world as we know it, having something to pass the time …read more Continue reading A Candle-Powered Game Boy For Post-Apocalyptic Tetris
You may not have noticed, but so-called “artificial intelligence” is slightly controversial in the arts world. Illustrators, graphics artists, visual effects (VFX) professionals — anybody who pushes pixels around are …read more Continue reading CorridorKey is What You Get When Artists Make AI Tools
Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much larger in capacity– starting at 100 MB, and reaching 750 …read more Continue reading Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back on LPT
Full-color 3D printing is something of a holy grail, if nothing else just because of how much it impresses the normies. We’ve seen a lot of multi-material units the past …read more Continue reading FullSpectrum is Like HueForge for 3D Models, but Bring Your Toolchanger
Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have been various attempts to fake it, but none …read more Continue reading Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard is Only 11 Years Late