Collaborate Disseminate
London, Ontario college student [Victoria Korhonen] has captured the attention of tech enthusiasts and miniaturization lovers with her creation of what might be the world’s smallest arcade machine. Standing just …read more Continue reading Tiny PONG, Big Ambitions: World’s Smallest Arcade
If you’re nostalgic for the golden age of microprocessors and dream of building your own computer, this story might spark your imagination. [Eric Lind], passionate retro enthusiast and his 14-year-old …read more Continue reading The 6809 8-Bit Microcomputer: A Father-Son Odyssey
Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor, or if you wish to split hairs, with the 1930s …read more Continue reading A Hundred Year Old Solid State Amplifier
Chess is timeless, but automating it? That’s where the real magic begins. Enter [Tamerlan Goglichidze]’s Pi Board, an automated chess system that blends modern tech with age-old strategy. Inspired by …read more Continue reading Chess What: One More Pi-Powered Board
Many Hackaday readers have an interest in retro technology, but we are not the only group who scour the flea markets. Alongside us are the collectors, whose interest is as …read more Continue reading When Transistor Count Mattered
What’s life without a little mystery? There’s one less rolling around after historians finally identified a donated mystery machine that had been in storage for years. The main pieces of …read more Continue reading Your Undocumented Project May Also Baffle People Someday
Today, if you want to get a picture from your oscilloscope — maybe to send to a collaborator or to stick in a document or blog post — it is …read more Continue reading Retrogadgets: Oscilloscope Cameras
Before flat screen technologies took over, we associate TV with the CRT. But there were other display technologies that worked, they just weren’t as practical. One scheme was the Nipkow …read more Continue reading Building a DIY Nipkow Disk Display
[David Shadoff] has a clear soft spot for the NEC console systems and has been collecting many tools and data about them. When developing with these old systems, having a …read more Continue reading An RP2040-based PC-FX Development Cartridge
[Sam Battle] is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete. The museum was recently gifted an enormous Nixie tube created by Dalibor Farný, a B-grade (well, …read more Continue reading Hands On With a Giant Nixie Tube