The Isetta TTL Computer Makes Some Noise Our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] is known for being the mind behind the Commodore 128, a machine which famously had both a 6502 and a Z80 processor on board. The …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Podcast Episode 343: Double Component Abuse, a Tinkercad Twofer, and a Pair of Rants This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the universe to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from …read more #hacking #projects image
Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital …read more #hacking #projects image
This Week in Security: Court Orders, GlassWorm, TARmageddon, and It was DNS This week, a US federal court has ruled that NSO Group is no longer allowed to use Pegasus spyware against users of WhatsApp. And for their trouble, NSO was also …read more #hacking #projects image
Robot Phone Home…Or Else We would have enjoyed [Harishankar’s] tear down of a robot vacuum cleaner, even if it didn’t have a savage twist at the end. Turns out, the company deliberately bricked his …read more #hacking #projects image
Tommy Flowers: How An Engineer Won The War Back in 2016, we took you to a collection of slightly dilapidated prefabricated huts in the English Home Counties, and showed you a computer. The place was the National Museum …read more #hacking #projects image
Automatically Serving Up Canned Cat Food If there’s any one benefit to having a cat as a pet instead of a dog, it’s that they’re a bit more independent and able to care for themselves for …read more #hacking #projects image
Making the Smallest and Dumbest LLM with Extreme Quantization The reason why large language models are called ‘large’ is not because of how smart they are, but as a factor of their sheer size in bytes. At billions of …read more #hacking #projects image
Keep An Eye On Your Air-Cooled Engine There was a time, long ago, when passenger vehicles used to be much simpler than they are today. There were many downsides of this era, safety chief among them, but …read more #hacking #projects image
A Logical Clock That Pretends To Be Analog [kcraske] had a simple plan for their clock build. They wanted a digital clock that was inspired by the appearance of an analog one, and they only wanted to use …read more #hacking #projects image