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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image