NE555-Based Electronic Dice
It has become a bit of a running joke in the Hackaday community to suggest that a project could or should have been done with a 555 timer. [Tim] has …read more Continue reading NE555-Based Electronic Dice
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Making a Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips into…QFN?
You can achieve a lot with a Dremel. For instance, apparently you can slim the original NES down into the hand-held form-factor. Both the CPU and the PPU (Picture Processing …read more Continue reading Making a Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips into…QFN?
Hackaday Links: June 12, 2022
“Don’t worry, that’ll buff right out.” Alarming news this week as the James Webb Space Telescope team announced that a meteoroid had hit the space observatory’s massive primary mirror. While …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 12, 2022
Electronic Dice Is Introduction To Microcontroller Programming
By now most of us are familiar with the Arduino platform. It’s an inexpensive and fairly easy way into the world of microcontrollers. For plenty of projects, there’s no need …read more Continue reading Electronic Dice Is Introduction To Microcontroller Programming
Factory Defect IC Revived With Sandpaper And Microsoldering
We might be amidst a chip shortage, but if you enjoy reverse-engineering, there’s never a shortage of intriguing old chips to dig into – and the 2513N 5×7 character ROM …read more Continue reading Factory Defect IC Revived With Sandpaper And Microsoldering
555 Teardown Isn’t Just A Good Time, It’s To Die For
It seems only appropriate that hot on the heels of the conclusion of Hackaday’s 555 Timer Contest that [Ken Shirriff] posts a silicon die teardown of an early version of …read more Continue reading 555 Teardown Isn’t Just A Good Time, It’s To Die For
Retrotechtacular: The Drama of Metal Forming
It may seem overwrought, but The Drama of Metal Forming actually is pretty dramatic. This film is another classic of mid-century corporate communications that was typically shown in schools, which …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Drama of Metal Forming
Decapping Components Hack Chat with John McMaster
Join us on Wednesday, March 10 at noon Pacific for the Decapping Components Hack Chat with John McMaster!
We treat them like black boxes, which they oftentimes are, but what lies beneath the inscrutable packages of electronic components is another …read more
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Open-DIP Surgery Cuts Retro Chips Down to Size
At least by today’s standards, some of the early chips were really, really big. They may have been revolutionary and they certainly did shrink the size of electronic devices, but integrating a 40-pin DIP into a modern design can be …read more
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What’s Inside An FPGA? Ken Shirriff Has (Again) The Answer
FPGAs are somewhat the IPv6 of integrated circuits — they’ve been around longer than you might think, they let you do awesome things that people are intrigued by initially, but they’ve never really broke out of their niches until rather recently. There’s still a bit of a myth and mystery …read more
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