Collaborate Disseminate
Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn’t need another operating system, but [Scott Baker] obviously disagrees. He has come up with a brand new, from scratch OS called NostOS for …read more Continue reading Who had “New OS for the Z80” On Their 2026 Bingo Card?
If you started with computers early enough, you’ll remember the importance of the RAMdisk concept: without a hard drive and with floppies slow and swapping constantly, everything had to live …read more Continue reading Green Powered Challenge: Solar Powered Pi Hosts Websites in RAM
Waveshare makes a nifty little ESP32-S3 based smartwatch product, but its firmware is apparently not to everyone’s liking. Specifically, it’s not to [infiniton] a.k.a [Bright_Warning_8406]’s liking, as they rewrote the …read more Continue reading Rust-y Firmware for Waveshare Smartwatch
Analog synths are fun because they combine music, which all humans seem hard-wired to enjoy in one form or another, and electronics, which… uh, this is Hackaday. If you don’t …read more Continue reading Otamatone Hacked Into Different, Cooler Synth: Trautonium
Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight each square meter of area swept by the propellers …read more Continue reading Variable-Pitch Propellers for More Efficient Quadcopter
Odds are, if you like neon lights, you’re not thrilled with the LED faux-“neon” strips that are supposed to replace them. They’ve got their advantages, but the light quality of …read more Continue reading Bending Faux-Neon LEDs Make for Animations Glass Tubes Can’t Match
“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — so …read more Continue reading Are We Surrendering Our Thinking To Machines?
When you’re programming microcontrollers, you’re likely to think in C if you’re old-school, Rust if you’re trendy, or Python if you want it done quick and have resources to spare. …read more Continue reading TinyGo Boldly Goes Where No Go Ever Did Go Before
There’s been a lot of virtual ink spilled in environmental circles about the cooling water requirements of data centers, but less consideration of what happens with all the heat coming …read more Continue reading The Heat Island Effect is Warming Up the AI Data Center Controversy
When the inevitable Kessler Syndrome cascade sweeps Starlink and its competitors from Low Earth Orbit in what will doubtless be a spectacular meteor shower of debris, the people behind Sceye …read more Continue reading Flying Cell Towers for Lower-Latency