Collaborate Disseminate
If you haven’t heard of Metal Gear, you probably haven’t played video games these last few decades. The original Metal Gear dates back to 1987 and launched on the MSX, …read more Continue reading Metal Gear Solid Moves From PlayStation to ESP32
The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually the 8-bit console it pretends to …read more Continue reading This PICO-8 Handheld is No Fantasy
Everybody loves the Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) ESP32 dev boards, so why not treat yours to a little PDA? That’s right: turn it into a Portable Digital Assistant and relive …read more Continue reading Cheap Yellow Display Dreams of PDA
Since you’re reading Hackaday, we’re pretty sure CERN needs no introduction, so we’ll get right to it– they’re giving back again, this time with a VHDL library called “colibri” containing …read more Continue reading FPGA for All — CERN Releases “colibri” VHDL Library
[Yeo Kheng Meng] has a problem: he likes Windows 98, but he also likes his 2020 ThinkPad, which only has an xHCI USB controller– you know, the kind needed for …read more Continue reading Modern USB Controllers On Win98 (and up)
If you weren’t already aware, it will probably come as no surprise to hear that the pioneering computer-animation studio Pixar built its early workflow on Silicon Graphics SGI workstations. These …read more Continue reading How Pixar Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Linux
Heat pumps are great, because they pump heat around, and we often don’t want heat where it is. Need it somewhere else? Pump it! It’s great. It’s also a bit …read more Continue reading Dumpster-dived Window A/C becomes Ground-Source Heat Pump
Large format cameras can produce amazing shots, but are a bit too bulky to be practical. Medium format is a different story, as [Wenting] demonstrates with his Sitina B220M — …read more Continue reading Digital Upgrade Brings Medium Format Camera Into the 21st Century
For his own reasons, [Jose Luis Monteiro] (aka [emsyscode]) decided he needed to drive the LCD on a Sony CDX-A250 car stereo’s front panel using an Arduino. There’s probably a …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering A Sony Car Stereo LCD
There are lots of reasons to run LLMs locally, from privacy concerns to just wanting to futz about with the technology, but if you want to run the big models, …read more Continue reading No GPU, No Problem: Flagship LLMs on a GPU-less Teenaged Server