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Suppose you decide you want to become a novelist. You enroll in the Hackaday Famous Novelists School where your instructor announces that since all truly great novels are written in …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Should We Teach BASIC?
It is easy to think of a potentiometer as a simple device, but there are many nuances. For example, some pots are linear — a change of a few degrees …read more Continue reading How Ten Turn Pots Are Made
[Mikrowave1] had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the 1960s using germanium and silicon transistors. It also had plug-in coils you had …read more Continue reading A Nostalgic Look at a Kid’s Shortwave Resistor
The processing power of modern game consoles is absolutely staggering when compared to the coin-op arcade machines of the early 1980s. Packed with terabytes of internal storage and gigabytes of …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: Bringing Arcade Classics to New Hardware
Although commonly referred to as a ‘timer IC’, the venerable NE555 and derivatives are in fact not timer ICs. This perhaps controversial statement is the open door that gets kicked …read more Continue reading Why The 555 Is Not a Timer, But Can Be One
Like many of us [AnotherMaker] is a fan of the classic Forrest Mims electronics books, specifically, the Engineer’s Mini-Notebook series. They were great sources of inspiration, but at the time, …read more Continue reading Bringing the 555 Mini-Notebook to Video
At Hackaday, we comb the world of tech in search of good things to bring you. Today’s search brought up something very familiar, [Jazzy Jane] has an Advance E1 tube …read more Continue reading Everyone Needs a 1950s Signal Generator in their Life
If you ever encounter a British engineer of a certain age, the chances are that even if they use a modern DMM they’ll have a big boxy multimeter in their …read more Continue reading A Vintage AC Bridge Teardown
One of the joys of the UK’s Electromagnetic Field hacker camp lies in the junk table, where trash turns to treasure in the blink of an eye. This year I …read more Continue reading The Amstrad E-m@iler, The Right Product With The Wrong Business Model
[Luizão] wanted to create some hardware to honour the memory of the technology used to put man on the moon and chose the literal core of the project, that of …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Core Rope Memory Module?