Collaborate Disseminate
A conventional tube amplifier has a circuit whose fundamentals were well in place around a hundred years ago, so there are few surprises to be found in building one today. …read more Continue reading A Tube Stereo Amplifier, From Scratch
Redbox was a service for renting DVDs from automated kiosks. The business was going well until it wasn’t anymore, and then the company went bankrupt in July this year. And …read more Continue reading Redbox Is Dead, But The Machines Are Kind Of Hanging On
Ever hear of the Phoniebox project? If not – tune in, that’s a hacker’s project your entire family will appreciate. Phoniebox is a software suite and tutorial for building a …read more Continue reading Phoniebox: A Family-Friendly Simple Music Box
As Hackaday writers we don’t always know what our colleagues are working on until publication time, so we all look forward to seeing what other writers come up with. This …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Another Thing Your TV No Longer Needs
As Hackaday writers we don’t always know what our colleagues are working on until publication time, so we all look forward to seeing what other writers come up with. This …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Another Thing Your TV No Longer Needs
It’s been a long time since the family TV has had a CRT in it, and even longer since that it was using what was basically an overgrown oscilloscope tube. …read more Continue reading Curing CRT Cataracts Freshens Up Retro Roundy TVs
Do you live in the UK, have a VCR and capture card, and an interest in Teletext? [James O’Malley] needs your help! Teletext was, for many people around the world, …read more Continue reading Want To Help Capture Some Digital Ephemera? Break Out Your VHS Player
Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this over-the-air TV simulator. And it has us feeling a little Saturday morning cartoon-ish, or maybe …read more Continue reading Broadcast TV Simulator Keeps the Nostalgia Flowing
A feature of many modern network-connected entertainment devices is that they will play streamed music while on standby mode. This so-called “network standby”is very useful if you fancy some gentle …read more Continue reading A USA Feature for a Europe-Market Sony Receiver
[Adam Francis] bought some cheap speaker drivers from AliExpress. Are they any good? Difficult to tell without a set of enclosures for them, so he made a set of transmission …read more Continue reading How To Turn Cheap Speakers Into Something A Little Better