Collaborate Disseminate
Full disclosure: [Óscar] isn’t nine now, but he was in 1988 when he wrote LOCS, a drawing program in Z80 assembly modeled after Logo. You can see a demo of …read more Continue reading A Nine-Year-Old’s Z80 Drawing Program
When all else fails, blame it on the cloud? It seems like that’s the script for just about every outage that makes the news lately, like the Wyze camera outage …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 25, 2024
The only thing better than getting your hands on a repairable piece of hardware is actually finding the thing in the first place, which is why we love this “official” …read more Continue reading Show ‘Em What You’re Made of With This Repair Logo
By Habiba Rashid
The innovative approach, known as “picture in picture,” capitalizes on users’ trust in familiar logos and promotions, making…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: “Picture in Picture… Continue reading “Picture in Picture” Technique Exploited in New Deceptive Phishing Attack
My son was into “Secret Coders“, a graphic novel series wherein a pair of kids discover and thwart a plot to take over the world by learning to program in …read more Continue reading The Real World Strikes Back
Anyone who worked in the tech field and lived through the Y2K bug era will no doubt recall it as a time seasoned with a confusing mix of fear and optimism and tempered with a healthy dose of panic, as companies rushed to validate that systems would pass the rollover …read more
No matter what you think about Nixie tubes, you’ve got to admit that having a Nixie custom made for you would be pretty cool. The cost of such a vanity project is probably prohibitive, but our friends at Keysight managed to convince none other than [Dalibor Farný] to immortalize their …read more
Continue reading Custom Logo Display Pushes Nixie Tube Technology
Recently there’s been some buzz in the news that Pepsi, or more accurately the company’s Russian division, had partnered with a startup by the name of StartRocket to experiment with the idea of putting “billboards” in space. After overwhelmingly negative response to the idea on social media, Pepsi’s official line …read more
Continue reading This Space for Rent: Advertisements in Orbit
There are similarities that we just can’t ignore. Continue reading Does the Upside Down Twitter Logo Look Like Sonic? An Investigation
There are many kits available to today’s hobbyists who wish to try their hand at producing simple computer-controlled robots. Small concoctions of servos and laser-cut acrylic, to which boards such as the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or Beaglebone can easily be fitted.
In the 1980s though this was a market that was yet to be adequately served. The sheer size of the many 8-bit machines of the day meant they could not be incorporated in your robot, and interfacing to them was a bit more challenging than the easy-to-use GPIOs of their modern counterparts. Then the mechanical hardware of a small …read more
