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Once upon a time, RC planes were expensive models that took months to build and big money to equip with electronics. Since the 20th century though, powerful batteries have become …read more Continue reading Build A Super Cheap RC Trainer Plane With Foam
Morse code, often referred to as continuous wave (CW) in radio circles, has been gradually falling out of use for a long time now. At least in the United States, …read more Continue reading Learning Morse Code with a DIY Trainer
Accessibility devices are a wonder of modern technology, allowing people with various needs to interact more easily with the world. From prosthetics to devices to augment or aid someone’s vision …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Braille Trainer Reduces Barrier to Entry
If you want to program a microcontroller today, you pop open your editor of choice, bang out some code, and flash it over USB. But back in ancient times, when …read more Continue reading A Retro-Style Trainer For Motorola’s 1-Bit Chip
Anyone who has played an online shooter game in the past two or three decades has almost certainly come across a person or machine that cheats at the game by …read more Continue reading Aimbot Does it in Hardware
We know what you’re thinking: this is yet another one of those “Gut the retro gear for its cool old case and then fill it up with IoT junk” projects. Well, rest assured that extending and enhancing this 1970s computer trainer is very much an exercise in respecting the original …read more
Continue reading Retro Computer Trainer Gets a Raspberry Pi Refit
It’s a safe bet that most Hackaday reader’s interest in electronics started at a young age, and that their early forays into the world of hardware hacking likely involved some form of “playground” kit. As long as you didn’t lose any of the components, these kits promised the user that …read more
Continue reading Developing an Open Source Electronics Trainer
Join us on Wednesday, August 12 at noon Pacific for the Recreating Retrocomputers Hack Chat with Mike Gardi!
Building the first commercial computers in the late 1950s and early 1960s was certainly a complex a task, but building the computer industry was even harder. Sure, engineers were already getting on …read more
If you were selling computers in the early 1960s you faced a few problems, chief among them was convincing people to buy the fantastically expensive machines. But you also needed to develop an engineering force to build and maintain said machines. And in a world where most of the electrical …read more
Continue reading Reproduction 1960s Computer Trainer Really Pushes Our Buttons
One of the joys of electronics as a hobby is how easy it is to get parts. Literally millions of parts are available from thousands of suppliers and hundreds of distributors, and everyone competes with each other to make it as easy as possible to put together an order from …read more
Continue reading Minivac 601 Replica Gets A Custom Motorized Rotary Switch