Collaborate Disseminate
Is there anything more discouraging to the reverse engineer than to see a black blob of epoxy applied directly to a PCB? We think not, because that formless shape provides …read more Continue reading Oddball LCDs Reverse Engineered Thanks to Good Detective Work
For the most part, Hackaday is all about hardware hacking projects. Sometimes, though, the real hack in a project isn’t building hardware, but rather building a community around the hardware. …read more Continue reading “Cheap Yellow Display” Builds Community Through Hardware
Adobe research scientist [Christine Dierk] showed off an interesting new project at the Adobe Max conference: Project Primrose, a dress covered with a series of liquid crystal panels that could …read more Continue reading Adobe Scientist Cuts A Dash With LCD Shifting Dress
Browsing the Asian marketplaces online is always an experience. Sometimes, you see things at ridiculously low prices. Other times, you see things and wonder who is buying them and why …read more Continue reading Cheap LCD Uses USB Serial
Thanks to parenting and life in general, [Brendan] had fallen out of the habit of writing and wasn’t happy about it. If you write anything ever, you already know there …read more Continue reading Raspi-Powered Typewriter Is a Real MUSE
Liquid crystal and Organic LED displays have revolutionized portable computing. They’re also made of glass. Which presents a problem: How do we get electrical signals from fiberglass circuit boards to …read more Continue reading Tiny Spheres Hiding in Your Display
From around 2012 onwards, there was a 3D viewing and VR renaissance in the entertainment industry. That hardware has grown in popularity, even if it’s not yet mainstream. However, 3D …read more Continue reading A Look at Sega’s 8-Bit 3D Glasses
The 16×2 LCD display is a classic in the microcontroller world, and for good reason. Add a couple of wires, download a library, mash out a few lines of code, …read more Continue reading Spice Up the Humble 16×2 LCD with Big Digits
With all those e-paper based projects doing the rounds these days, including in our Low Power Challenge, you’d almost forget that monochrome LCDs were the original ultra-low-power display. Without them, …read more Continue reading Low Power Challenge: LCD Solar Creatures Live on Sunlight, Sleep at Night
The fonts seen with old computer systems such as those from Apple and Commodore, as well as Microsoft Windows 3.1 and older, form an integral part of our interaction with …read more Continue reading Reliving a Bitmapped Past With a Veritable Hoard of Bitmap Fonts