Collaborate Disseminate
If one uses a micro SD card with a card reader on Windows, or on Linux, or on Android – would there be a way so a forensic guy could definitely tell on which computer the flash card was used by examining it?
I know OS can log which devices… Continue reading Which traces leave on a flash card after using it?
While we’ll admit seeing your Game Boy Camera shots come out on a little slip of thermal paper was pretty neat back in 1998, anyone who’s still using the Game …read more Continue reading An Open Source Game Boy Printer That Doesn’t Print
While it might have been a commercial failure compared to contemporary consoles, the Sega Dreamcast still enjoys an active homebrew scene more than twenty years after its release. Partly it’s …read more Continue reading Dreamcast Homebrew Gets Boost from SD Card Cache
SD cards were developed and released just before the turn of the millenium. Since then, we’ve seen smaller formats, miniSD and microSD, become popular for portable devices. However, sometimes bigger is better. [Useless Mod] dared to dream that dream, and …read more
Continue reading Physically Huge SD Card Technically Has Some Benefits
SD cards have long been a favorite with microcontroller hobbyists. Cheap, readily available, and easily interfaced, they remain a staple for small projects that need to store a lot of data. Now, they’re available in chip form! These are known as SD NAND parts that emulate the SD card interface …read more
Continue reading New Part Day: SD NAND are Surface Mount Chips That Work Like An SD Card
Universal Serial Bus, or USB, is so ingrained in modern computing that it’s hard to imagine a time without it. That time did exist, though, and it was a wild west of connector types, standards, and interfacing methods. One of the more interesting interfaces of the time was the SIO …read more
Retro computer enthusiast [Steven Combs] documents his adventure building the TEDuino, a modern replacement for the Commodore Datasette which uses an SD card instead of audio tape. He based the design on [Peter Edwards]’s Tapuino project, which was featured by Hackaday back in 2014. [Steven] took the aesthetic design to …read more
Continue reading An Up-To-Date Datasette for Commodore TED Series
I found an SD card at airport security. It’s a higher-end card and 64GB. I’m guessing that it’s probably from someone’s camera and likely has photos on it that they would like returned. Is there a safe way form me to view the contents w… Continue reading Found SD Card – Now What?
The SD card first burst onto the scene in 1999, with cards boasting storage capacities up to 64 MB hitting store shelves in the first quarter of 2000. Over the years, sizes slowly crept up as our thirst for more storage continued to grow. Fast forward to today, and the …read more
There’s plenty of fun to be had with retrocomputers of yesteryear, but for modern users, it can be something of a culture shock. Going back to floppy disks after all these years is a reminder of just how far storage technology has come in terms of speed, reliability, and of …read more
Continue reading Miniature Faux Floppy for 8-Bit Atari Looks the Part