A Tiny Forest of Resistors Makes for Quick and Dirty Adaptive Optics

The term “adaptive optics” sounds like something that should be really complicated and really expensive. And in general, the ability to control the properties of optical elements is sufficiently difficult …read more Continue reading A Tiny Forest of Resistors Makes for Quick and Dirty Adaptive Optics

Pi Compute Module is Love-child of Raspberry and Arduino

The Raspberry Pi compute module is a powerful piece of hardware, especially for the price. With it, you get more IO than a normal Pi, plus the ability to design hardware around it that’s specifically tailored to your needs rather than simply to general-purpose consumers. However, this comes at the …read more

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Retro Computer Trainer Gets a Raspberry Pi Refit

We know what you’re thinking: this is yet another one of those “Gut the retro gear for its cool old case and then fill it up with IoT junk” projects. Well, rest assured that extending and enhancing this 1970s computer trainer is very much an exercise in respecting the original …read more

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Expansion Board Puts Spotify On The Amiga 500

No doubt some purists in the audience will call this one cheating, since this Amiga 500 from 1987 isn’t technically connecting to Spotify and playing the music by itself. But we also suspect those folks might be missing the point of a site called Hackaday. With all the hoops [Daniel …read more

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Oil-and-Gas Specialist APT Pivots to U.S. Power Plants

Researchers say that physically disruptive attacks aren’t imminent, but an increased focus on U.S. electrical-grid operators doesn’t bode well. Continue reading Oil-and-Gas Specialist APT Pivots to U.S. Power Plants