Hacker Olympics
The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics is going on today. It’s an over-the-top presentation meant to draw people into sport. And for the next few weeks, we’ll be seeing …read more Continue reading Hacker Olympics
Category Archives: Rant
Sometimes It’s Not the Solution
Watching a video about a scratch-built ultra-precise switch for metrology last week reminded me that it’s not always the projects that are the most elegant solutions that I enjoy reading …read more Continue reading Sometimes It’s Not the Solution
Institutional Memory, On Paper
Our own Dan Maloney has been on a Voyager kick for the past couple of years. Voyager, the space probe. As a long-term project, he has been trying to figure …read more Continue reading Institutional Memory, On Paper
Microsoft Killed My Favorite Keyboard, And I’m Mad About It
As a professional writer, I rack up thousands of words a day. Too many in fact, to the point where it hurts my brain. To ease this burden, I choose …read more Continue reading Microsoft Killed My Favorite Keyboard, And I’m Mad About It
Wireless All the Things!
Neither Tom Nardi nor I are exactly young anymore, and we can both remember a time when joysticks were actually connected with wires to the computer or console, for instance. …read more Continue reading Wireless All the Things!
Horrendous Mess of Wires
When do you post your projects? When they’re done? When they’re to the basic prototype stage? Or all along the way, from their very conception? All of these have their …read more Continue reading Horrendous Mess of Wires
Confluence of Nerdery
You might find yourself, dear Hackaday reader, attracted to some pretty strange corners of the tech world. Who knows when that knowledge of stenography, ancient retrocomputing, and floppy disk internals …read more Continue reading Confluence of Nerdery
Ask Hackaday: Why Retrocomputing?
I recently dropped in on one of the Vintage Computer Festival events, and it made me think about why people — including myself — are fascinated with old computer technology. …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Retrocomputing?
Open Source and Giving Back
3D printing YouTuber [Thomas Sanladerer] made a fairly contentious claim in a video about the state of open source hardware and software: namely that it’s not viable “anymore”. You can …read more Continue reading Open Source and Giving Back
Farewell American Computer Magazines
I grew up in a small town with a small library. The next town over had what I thought at the time was a big library, but it was actually …read more Continue reading Farewell American Computer Magazines