Category: Tech

Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving owned an Amiga microcomputer is apparently a little bit like having shaken hands with Shoggoth: no one can escape unchanged from the experience. Thirty-two

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe lost a true legend this week with the passing of NASA astronaut Jim Lovell at the ripe old age of 97. Lovell commanded the

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThese days, if you want to flash some LEDs, you’d probably grab a microcontroller. Maybe you’d go a little more old-school, and grab a 555.

Reading Time: 2 minutesDesigning a circuit is a lot easier on paper, where components have well-defined values, or lacking that, at least well-defined tolerances. Unfortunately, even keeping percentage

Reading Time: 2 minutesNormally when you think solar projects, you think of big photovoltaic cells. But a photodiode is just an inefficient, and usually much smaller, PV cell.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are plenty of conventional timepieces out there in the world; we’ve also featured a great many that are aesthetically beautiful while being unreadably esoteric.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you want to save a little money on a thermal camera, or if you just enjoy making your own, you should have a look

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and found it only produced illegal instruction errors. We’re sure he’s like

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself but the particularly

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when making a cloud chamber with dry ice and alcohol was one of those ‘rite of passage’ type science projects every

Reading Time: 2 minutesHumanity pretty much has Pi figured out at this point. We’ve calculated it many times over and are confident about what it is down to

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDespite the availability of ready-made displays never being better, there are still some hardy experimenters who take on the challenge of making their own. In