Collaborate Disseminate
While there’s nothing quite like running retro games on their original hardware, using older consoles in today’s day and age can be a hassle due to incompatibilities with modern chargers …read more Continue reading Game Boy Advance SP Case Mod Adds Battery Capacity and Modern Interfaces
Here at Hackaday, we see all sorts of projects, some born out of a deep necessity or itch that couldn’t be scratched. Others are born out of a world of …read more Continue reading The Stretch Limo Of Game Boys
Over the years we’ve seen plenty of homebrew handheld game systems that combine an AVR microcontroller, a few buttons, and an small OLED display. We’ve even seen some of them …read more Continue reading DIY Handheld Game Puts its Brains on a Removable Cart
It’s easy to take for granted the constantly-connected, GPS-equipped, navigation device most of us now carry in our pockets. Want to know how to get to that new restaurant you …read more Continue reading E-Paper Pocket Map Goes Where Your Phone Can’t
We’ve seen a huge influx of bespoke portable computers over the last couple of years thanks to availability of increasingly powerful single-board computers. The vast majority of these have been …read more Continue reading Handheld Hackintosh Runs Mac OS on LattePanda
Why reach for a bland, commercially available calculator when you be using a model that employs RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) in its calculations and be a custom build all at …read more Continue reading An Open-source Scientific RPN Calculator
Soldering requires steady hands, so when [Jonathan Gleich] sadly developed a condition called an essential tremor affecting his hands, soldering became much more difficult. But one day, while [Jonathan] was …read more Continue reading Soldering Iron Plus Camera Gimbal Helps Cancel Out Hacker’s Hand Tremors
When Nintendo officially ended production of the 3DS in September 2020, it wasn’t exactly a surprise. For one thing, some variation of the handheld system had been on the market …read more Continue reading Exploring the World of Nintendo 3DS Homebrew
In the movies, everything is modular. Some big gun fell off the spaceship when it crashed? Good thing you can just pick it up and fire it as-is (looking at …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Make Modular Hardware?
Now why didn’t we think of this? While building a dactyl manuform — a semi-ergonomic split keyboard — [dapperrogue] had the life-changing epiphany that keyboards can be any shape or …read more Continue reading This Pineapple Keyboard is the Bomb