Collaborate Disseminate
A computer’s BIOS includes basic diagnostic tools for troubleshooting issues. Often, we rely on the familiar beeps from the POST system for this reason. However, error codes are also available …read more Continue reading BIOS POST Card Built Using Raspberry Pi Pico
[Alessandro Carminati] spends the day hacking Linux kernels, and to such an end needed a decent compilation machine to chew through the builds. One day, this machine refused to boot …read more Continue reading Can You Use A POST Card With A Modern BIOS?
We’re not sure if there’s any single characteristic that qualifies someone as a hacker. After all, we’re a pretty eclectic bunch, with skills that range all over the map, and …read more Continue reading Connecting a Keyboard to a Vintage PC-XT, the Hard Way
Life is full of tough decisions, such as deciding whether you want to go to the end of the drive to check if the mail has arrived. These questions are made even more arduous in the winter months, but [Catpin] has a solution. The Mail Box Alert uses an Electric …read more
Back in the 70s when I started getting interested in electronics, tons of magazines catered to the hobbyist market. Popular Electronics was my favorite, and I think I remember the advertisements more than anything, probably because they outnumbered articles by a large margin. Looking back, it seemed like a lot of ad space was sold to companies hawking the tools and materials needed for wire wrapping, which was very popular for prototyping in the days before solderless breadboards were readily available. I remember beauty shots of neat rows of small, gold posts, with stripped wires wrapped evenly around them.
To …read more
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Whatever Happened to Wire Wrapping?
Facebook says its policies are “race-neutral.” Continue reading Rapper Lil B Sent Us the Posts Facebook Calls ‘Hate Speech’
We salute you, young cyberpunk. Continue reading A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How to Get Free Data on His Phone