Installing an 84MB Hard Drive Into a PDP-11/44 Over on YouTube [Usagi Electric] shows us how he installed an 84MB hard drive into his PDP-11/44. In the beginning he purchased a bunch of RA70 and RA72 drives and …read more #hacking #projects

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Installing An 84MB Hard Drive Into A PDP-11/44

Over on YouTube [Usagi Electric] shows us how he installed an 84MB hard drive into his PDP-11/44. In the beginning he purchased a bunch of RA70 and...

There’s no Rust on this Ironclad Kernel Rust is the new hotness in programming languages because of how solid its memory protections are. Race conditions and memory leaks are hardly new issues however, and as greybeards are …read more #hacking #projects

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There’s No Rust On This Ironclad Kernel

Rust is the new hotness in programming languages because of how solid its memory protections are. Race conditions and memory leaks are hardly new i...

Cheap Multimeter Gets Webified [Mellow Labs] wanted to grab a multimeter that could do Bluetooth. Those are cheap and plentiful, but the Bluetooth software was, unsurprisingly, somewhat lacking. A teardown shows a stock Bluetooth …read more #hacking #projects

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Cheap Multimeter Gets Webified

[Mellow Labs] wanted to grab a multimeter that could do Bluetooth. Those are cheap and plentiful, but the Bluetooth software was, unsurprisingly, s...

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light an LED With Nothing Should you spend some time around the less scientifically informed parts of the internet, it’s easy to find “Free power” stories. Usually they’re some form of perpetual motion machine flying …read more #hacking #projects

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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light An LED With Nothing

Should you spend some time around the less scientifically informed parts of the internet, it’s easy to find “Free power” stories....

FLOSS Weekly Episode 854: The Big Daddy Core This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That’s the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same containers on Linux and a host …read more #hacking #projects

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 854: The Big Daddy Core

This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That’s the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same ...

Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to …read more #hacking #projects

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Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System

In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielde...

Morse Code for China It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and output devices. After all, each character is a tiny …read more #hacking #projects

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Morse Code For China

It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and output devices. After...

Pi Compute Modules Make for Compact Cluster Raspberry Pi clusters have been a favorite project of homelabbers and distributed computing enthusiasts since the platform first launched over a decade ago, and for good reason. For an extremely …read more #hacking #projects

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Pi Compute Modules Make For Compact Cluster

Raspberry Pi clusters have been a favorite project of homelabbers and distributed computing enthusiasts since the platform first launched over a de...

Join the The Newest Social Network and Party Like its 1987 Algorithms? Datamining? Brainrot? You don’t need those things to have a social network. As we knew back in the BBS days, long before anyone coined the phrase “social network”, all …read more #hacking #projects

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Join The The Newest Social Network And Party Like Its 1987

Algorithms? Datamining? Brainrot? You don’t need those things to have a social network. As we knew back in the BBS days, long before anyone c...

Resurrecting Conquer: A Game from the 1980s [Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We think he should add computer game archaeologist to that …read more #hacking #projects

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Resurrecting Conquer: A Game From The 1980s

[Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We think he should add comp...