Collaborate Disseminate
Wireless charging is pretty convenient, as long as the transmitter and receiver speak the same protocol. Just put the device you want to charge on the wireless charger without worrying …read more Continue reading How Wireless Charging Works and Why It’s Terrible
Here at Hackaday we’re suckers for old abandoned technologies, the more obscure the better. The history of the telephone has plenty to capture our attention, and it’s from that arena …read more Continue reading Rabbit Sighted In The Wild
An endless source of amusement for those of advancing years can come from handing a rotary phone to a teenager and asking them to dial a number with it. It’s …read more Continue reading A Dial Phone SIPs Asterisk
Psst! Hey kid! Want to reverse-engineer some iPhones? Well, did you know that modern iPhones use PCIe, and specifically, NVMe for their storage chips? And if so, have you ever …read more Continue reading iPhone 6S NVMe chip Tapped Using a Flexible PCB
Imagine if, somehow, telephones of all kinds had not been invented. Then, this morning, someone entered a big corporation board room and said, “We’d like to string copper wire to …read more Continue reading The End of Landlines?
If you read Byte magazine in 1983, you might have expected that, by now, you’d be able to buy the red phone with the video screen built-in. You know, like …read more Continue reading Your 1983 Video Phone is Finally Ready
The mobile phone is an expensive and often surprisingly fragile device, whose manufacturers are notorious for making them as difficult to repair as possible. Glued-together cases and unreplaceable batteries abound, …read more Continue reading Schematics, For A Modern Flagship Phone
There’s an old adage about waiting hours for a bus only for two to appear at once, and for Hackaday this month we’re pleased to have seen this in a …read more Continue reading A Crossbar Telephone Switch Explained
Such has been the success of the mobile phone that in many places they have removed the need for wired connections, for example where this is being written the old …read more Continue reading A Complete Exchange From Scratch For Your Rotary Dial Phones
For those of us off the Atlantic coast of Europe it’s a frigid winter as our isles are lashed by continuous storms. Summer seems a very long time ago, and …read more Continue reading POTS at a Hacker Camp