Collaborate Disseminate
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?
We all know the havoc that water in the wrong place can do to a piece of electronics, and thus we’ve probably all had devices damaged beyond repair. Should [Solderking] …read more Continue reading Fix Every Broken Via To Return This Game To Life
[Stephen] writes to us about an LCD repair tool he has created. We’ve all seen old devices with monochrome LCDs connected by thin film, where connections between the PCB and …read more Continue reading World’s Smallest Hair Straightener For Fixing Old LCD Ribbons
When we see [Ken Shirriff] reverse engineering something, it tends to be on the microscopic level. His usual forte is looking at die photos of strange and obsolete chips and …read more Continue reading Retro Breadboard Gives Up its 1960s Secrets
Hackers are often of the sentimental type, falling in love with the look and feel of quality old hardware. Of course, sometimes that older hardware needs a little TLC to …read more Continue reading Vintage Multimeter Gets An LCD Transplant
Here’s an interesting and detailed teardown and repair of a Keithley 2001 7.5 Digit multimeter that is positively dripping with detail. It’s also not every day that we get to …read more Continue reading Vintage MMU Repair? It’s Easier With X-Rays