Collaborate Disseminate
LCD televisions are a technological miracle, but if they have an annoying side it’s that some of them are a bit lacklustre when it comes to displaying black. [Mousa] has …read more Continue reading Responsive LCD Backlights With A Little Lateral Thinking
If you’ve ever bought a modchip that adds features to your game console, you might have noticed sanded-off IC markings, epoxy blobs, or just obscure chips with unknown source code. …read more Continue reading An Open XBOX Modchip Enters The Scene
If you want to read something from magnetic tape, you need a tape head, right? Or you could do like [Igor Brichkov] and make your own. It looks surprisingly simple. …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Tape Recorder/Player
You know the feeling of having just created a perfect setup for your hacker lab? Sometimes, there’s just this missing piece in the puzzle that requires you to do a …read more Continue reading Interfacing a Cheap HDMI Switch With Home Assistant
Anyone with more than a passing interest in flight simulators will eventually want to upgrade their experience with a HOTAS (Hands On Throttle-And-Stick) setup that has buttons and switches for …read more Continue reading Take Control of MS Flight Sim With Your Smartphone
Some people trick out their cars. Some, their computers. There are even people who max out their audio systems, although back in 1979, there was more of that going on, …read more Continue reading Weird Old Stereo Accessories
“They just don’t build ’em like they used to” is a truer statement every year. Whether your vice is CRTs, film cameras, or tape decks, you’ll know that the very best …read more Continue reading Here’s The Norwegian Tape Deck Teardown You’ve Been Waiting For
Usually when we see arcade cabinet builds, they’re your standard single-player stand up variety. Even one of them takes up quite a bit of room, so as appealing as it …read more Continue reading Gather ‘Round This Unique 4-Player Arcade Cabinet
A good amount of hacks can be done with off-the-shelf hardware – what’s more, it’s usually available all over the world, which means your hacks are easier to build for …read more Continue reading A Portable DLNA Server Hack Helps You Tame OpenWRT
Any reader who has bought a TV in recent years will know that it’s now almost impossible to buy one that’s just a TV. Instead they are all “smart” TVs, …read more Continue reading Your Smart TV Does 4K, Surround Sound, Denial-of-service…