Meshtastic: A Tale of Two Cities If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather here in New Jersey isn’t quite so dynamic that there’s …read more #hacking #projects image
Google Japan Turn Out Another Keyboard, and it’s a Dial There’s a joke that does the rounds, about a teenager being given a dial phone and being unable to make head nor tail of it.  Whether or not it’s true, …read more #hacking #projects image
Billy Bass Gets New Job as a Voice Assistant For those who were alive and conscious before the modern Internet, there were in fact things that went “viral” and became cultural phenomenon for one reason or another. Although they …read more #hacking #projects image
Why Stepper Motors Still Dominate 3D Printing It’s little secret that stepper motors are everywhere in FDM 3D printers, but there’s no real reason why you cannot take another type of DC motor like a brushless DC …read more #hacking #projects image
Where is Mathematics Going? Large Language Models and Lean Proof Assistant If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of …read more #hacking #projects image
The Entire Process of Building an Open Source Analog ASIC Our hacker [Pat Deegan] of Psychogenic Technologies shows us the entire process of designing an analog ASIC. An ASIC is of course an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, which is basically just …read more #hacking #projects image
Honoring the Legacy of Robert Murray-Smith We at Hackaday are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Murray-Smith. The prolific experimenter had spent over a decade on YouTube, creating more than 2,500 videos where …read more #hacking #projects image
FLOSS Weekly Episode 850: One ROM to Rule Them All This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a …read more #hacking #projects image
Ask Hackaday: Why is TTL 5 Volts? The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was just a poor kid trying to cobble together my first …read more #hacking #projects image
A Minicomputer Tape Drive Receives Some Love Taking on a refrigerator-sized minicomputer  is not for the faint-hearted, but [Usagi Electric] has done it with a DEC PDP-11/44. He’s not doing it in half measures either, for his …read more #hacking #projects image