Collaborate Disseminate
Vintage electronics and capacitor replacements tend to go hand-in-hand. Why? Because electrolytic capacitors just don’t last, not the way most other components do, anyway. It’s one thing to swap old …read more Continue reading Fix Old Caps, But Keep That “Can Capacitor” Look
Perhaps the weakest point in modern electronics when it comes to user servicability is the lifecycle of the batteries included from the manufacturer. Without easily replaceable batteries, many consumer goods …read more Continue reading Adding A Battery To Extend Speaker Life
While the 2022 Hackaday Prize as a whole winds its way through a good chunk of the year, each individual challenge that makes up the competition only sticks around for …read more Continue reading Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to Enter the Hack it Back Challenge
[D. Scott Williamson] paid $5 for a Roland JV-30 synthesizer at a garage sale. Score! There was only one catch: it didn’t work and didn’t include the power supply. Luckily, …read more Continue reading Restoring $5 Busted Synthesizer Made Easy, Thanks to Thermal
The 2022 Hackaday Prize continues to hurtle along, with two of the five Challenges already in the rear-view mirror. While we’re naturally excited about every phase of this year’s contest, …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Hack It Back and Make it Yours
Buying broken gear for cheap is time honored hacker tradition, and while we might not always be successful in reviving it, rarely do we come away empty handed. There’s always …read more Continue reading Swapped ROM Revives Ailing HP-48S Calculator
Laptops of yesteryear were never the easiest things to upgrade or repair yourself, but today’s machines are even less so. The Framework Laptop is very much designed for user tweaking, and has now been upgraded to 12th Gen Intel Core processors.Continue… Continue reading Framework upgrades modular, repair-friendly laptop to latest Intel CPUs
[Adrian] has a lot of retrocomputers, so he uses an RGB to HDMI converter to drive modern monitors. In particular, he has a box that uses a programmable logic chip …read more Continue reading Repairing an HDMI Adapter Doesn’t Go So Well
[Johnny] had a monitor that he was particularly fond of. The whole monitor appeared dead, and he decided to open it up and find out what could be wrong. He …read more Continue reading The Hair Dryer Monitor Fix
A huge part of the work our community does, aside from making things and doing a lot of talking about the things we’d like to make, involves repair. We have …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Repair Café Or Not?