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Sometimes a piece of hardware meets a prank idea, and that’s how the fun Hackaday articles are born. [AnotherMaker] shows us some harmless entertainment at the expense of an IT …read more Continue reading ESP32 Pretends To Be GPU; Gives You A Ransomware Scare
Over the years we’ve seen a number of hackers generate VGA with 74xx logic chips, but they’ve generally not been the most practical of builds. Often put together as part …read more Continue reading A Slim 7400 Logic VGA Board For All Your Retro Needs
These days, supply chain factors and high demand have made it incredibly difficult to lay one’s hands on a GPU. However, if you’re into older computers, you might find it …read more Continue reading Some Pleasing Experiments in 8-Bit Video Cards
Here at Hackaday we can never get enough of odd clocks, and we’re delighted to see [Dan O’Shea]’s creation called the Wifi-Telnet-FPGA-NTSC Drunk Wall Clock. That mouthful is an accurate …read more Continue reading Drunk Wall Clock Uses Convoluted Circuits to Display Time
It’s quite a while since any of us unpacked a brand new VGA monitor, but since so many machines still have the ability to drive them even through an inexpensive …read more Continue reading Save That Old VGA Monitor From The Trash
Today’s microcontrollers are high-speed powerhouses that can do absolutely wonderous things. By virtue of fast clock speeds and special DMA hardware, it’s often possible to achieve great feats that seem …read more Continue reading Running Six VGA Projectors From a Single ESP32
[James Sharman] has built an impressive 8-bit homebrew computer. Based on TTL logic chips, it has a pipelined design which makes it capable of Commodore-level computing, but [James] hasn’t quite …read more Continue reading VGA From Scratch On A Homebrew 8-bit Computer
[Miroslav Nemecek] really pushes the limits of the Pico with his PicoVGA project, which packs a surprising number of features. His main goal with this library is to run retro …read more Continue reading VGA Library for the Raspberry Pi Pico
Few in the 1980s were too fussed about their home computer only supporting a single monitor; indeed, most were satisfied enough by the brand new capabilities on offer at the …read more Continue reading A Dual Monitor Setup for the C64, and Yes, It’s VGA Compatible
We’re big fans of the Arduboy here at Hackaday, but we’ll admit its tiny screen isn’t exactly ideal for long gaming sessions. There are some DIY builds of the open …read more Continue reading Arduboy on the Big Screen