Hackaday Links: March 12, 2023

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With a long history of nearly universal hate for their products, you’d think printer manufacturers would by now have found ways to back off from the policies that only seem …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 12, 2023

HPE GreenLake vs AWS: Compare top edge computing platforms

HPE Greenlake and AWS provide edge solutions for improving the speed and security of users’ data processes. But which vendor takes a better approach toward edge computing?
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Remoticon 2021 // Rob Weinstein Builds an HP-35 from the Patent Up

Fifty years ago, Hewlett-Packard introduced the first handheld scientific calculator, the HP-35. It was quite the engineering feat, since equivalent machines of the day were bulky desktop affairs, if not …read more Continue reading Remoticon 2021 // Rob Weinstein Builds an HP-35 from the Patent Up

Calculate Like It’s 1989 With This HP15C Emulator

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Back in the day, your choice of calculator said a lot about your chops, and nothing made a stronger statement than the legendary Hewlett-Packard Voyager series of programmable calculators. From …read more Continue reading Calculate Like It’s 1989 With This HP15C Emulator

This Expedient Microfiche Reader Illuminates Retro Datasheets

You have to be of a certain vintage to remember doing research on microfilm and microfiche. Before the age of mass digitization of public records, periodicals, and other obscure bits of history, dead-tree records were optically condensed onto fine-grain film, either in roll form or as flat sheets, which were …read more

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Retro Calculator Design Has Creative Tactile Touchscreen

We’ve all heard it a thousand times – they don’t make ’em like they used to. Sometimes, that’s for good reason, but there is a certain build quality to electronics of the mid-20th century that is hard to find in hardware today. This inspires great nostalgia and dedication in some, …read more

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