Hackaday Prize 2022: The Baffatari 2600 Adds Atari Compatibility to Retrocomputers

A PCB carrying several Atari 2600 chips

Like today’s Intel-AMD duopoly, the market for home computer CPUs in the 1970s and ’80s was dominated by two players: Zilog with their Z80, and MOS Technology with their 6502 …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: The Baffatari 2600 Adds Atari Compatibility to Retrocomputers

Hackaday Prize 2022: A CM4 Upgrade For Your Old iPad

Motherboard on the desk, with a CM4 plugged into it, and all kinds of wires connected to it for purposes of debugging

There’s no shortage of nicely built tablets out there, but unfortunately many of them are powered by what are by now severely outdated motherboards. Since manufacturers releasing replacement motherboards for …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: A CM4 Upgrade For Your Old iPad

Hackaday Prize 2022: House Ventilation Reverse-Engineered And Automated

the dongle developed by Marcel, with a USB-A plug on one end and an SMD antenna on the other

[Marcel] thought – what if he had more control over his house ventilation system? You could add some nifty features, such as automatically ventilating your house in the mornings when …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: House Ventilation Reverse-Engineered And Automated

Hackaday Prize 2022: Glue-Hindered Smart Tweezer Repair Involves a Rebuild

Resulting tweezer assembly, with a 3D printed replacement case for both of the probes

[Dan Julio] owns a pair of Miniware multimeter tweezers, a nifty helper tool for all things SMD exploration. One day, he found them broken – unable to recognize any component …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Glue-Hindered Smart Tweezer Repair Involves a Rebuild