Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve all seen emulated Apple II and Commodore 64 boards about the place. Few of us have heard of the Romanian ZX Spectrum clone known as the Cobra, let alone …read more Continue reading Building a Replica Of An Obscure Romanian Computer
You’ve got to watch out for Loki — he’s a trickster, after all, and he might make you think this semi-cyberdeck mash-up machine is named after him, when the backstory …read more Continue reading Loki is Part Cyberdeck, Part Sinclair Spectrum, and Pretty Tricky
Head for the hills!! We’re all doomed! At least that’s the impression you might get from the headlines about the monster Earth-facing sunspot this week. While any sunspot that doubles …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 26, 2022
While high-fidelity audio has come a long way in the past several decades, a lot of modern stereo equipment is still missing out on some of the old analog meters …read more Continue reading Teensy Spectrum Analyzer has 170 Channels
The Starlink beta has semi-officially ended, but it seems as though the global chip shortage is still limiting how many satellites are flying around the world for broadband internet access …read more Continue reading Detect Starlink Satellites Passing By
Fast Fourier Transforms. Spectrum Analyzers. Waterfall displays. Not long ago, such terms were reserved for high end test gear. But oh, how things have changed! It’s no surprise to many …read more Continue reading Art Project Fast And Fouriously Transforms Audio Into Eye Candy
At the beginning of the home computer revolution, the humble compact cassette was far and away the most popular choice for microcomputer data storage, especially on the European continent. As …read more Continue reading The Labor of Love That Is Recovering Lost Software
Hopefully by now most of us know better than to rent a modem from an internet service provider. Buying your own and using it is almost always an easy way …read more Continue reading Cable Modem Turned Spectrum Analyzer
Like most of us, [Peter] had a bit of extra time on his hands during quarantine and decided to take a look back at speech recognition technology in the 1970s. …read more Continue reading Speech Recognition on an Arduino Nano?
Play around with optics long enough and sooner or later you’re probably going to want a spectrometer. Optical instruments are famously expensive, though, at least for high-quality units. But a …read more Continue reading Pi-Based Spectrometer Puts the Complexity in the Software