Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve seen plenty of impressive robots of all sizes here at Hackaday, but recently we were particularly inspired by [Hans Jørgen Grimstad] and his thrifty mini sumo build. Using the …read more Continue reading Pint-sized sumo robot is adorable, accessible and totally awesome
Musician and electronic musical machine builder [Sam Battle] has recreated the unusual Crystal Palace Audio Fader over at Look Mum No Computer. The Crystal Palace was a rotary fader developed …read more Continue reading Sixteen Channel Retro Rotary Fader
Back in 2016, the BBC gave a million tiny computers to UK school kids for free as part of its Make It Digital project. The micro:bit boards were designed as learning tools to help get youngsters into coding, and now the tiny computer for tiny hands has… Continue reading BBC adds sound and touch to tiny micro:bit educational computer
Someone working for the BBC appears to have made a disastrous blunder while trying to remain anonymous on the internet… Continue reading When trolling your colleagues and boss via an anonymous Twitter account, don’t make this mistake…
If you compare the early PC market for the US and the UK, you’ll notice one big difference. While many US schools had Apple computers, there were significant numbers of other computers in schools, as well. In the UK, pretty much every school that had a computer had an Acorn …read more
Continue reading Econet – Britain’s Early Educational Network
Can you believe it’s very nearly exactly 20 years since the Love Bug virus spread around the world, infecting millions of computers? No, I can’t either…
A few weeks ago it was my pleasure to be interviewed by the BBC’s Gabriela… Continue reading Talking love and viruses on the BBC World Service
A cybercrime vigilante was so incensed by tech support scammers, he reverse-hacked the Indian call centre to spy on his would-be attackers. Continue reading Tech support scammers hacked back by vigilante
A mirror copy of the BBC’s international news website is now available to users on the so-called dark web. Continue reading New BBC ‘dark web’ Tor mirror site aims to beat censorship
Over the past few years the number of reported near misses between multirotors, or drones as they are popularly referred to, and aircraft has been on the rise. While evidence to back up these reports has been absent time and again.
We’ve looked at incident reports, airport closures, and media …read more
Continue reading DJI Fights Back Over Sensationalist Drone Reporting
From today’s perspective, vacuum tubes are pretty low tech. But for a while they were the pinnacle of high tech, and heavy research followed the promise shown by early vacuum tubes in transmission and computing. Indeed, as time progressed, tubes became very sophisticated and difficult to manufacture. After all, they were as ubiquitous as ICs are today, so it is hardly surprising that they got a lot of R&D.
Prior to 1938, for example, tubes were built as if they were light bulbs. As the demands on them grew more sophisticated, the traditional light bulb design wasn’t sufficient. For one, …read more