Why Do We Love Weird Old Tech? One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ubiquitous LCD and the vanishing CRT, the plasma TV had its …read more #hacking #projects

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Why Do We Love Weird Old Tech?

One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ubiquitous LCD and the vanishin...

Baby’s First Synth was Daddy’s First Project We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s third birthday in spite of having no prior hardware knowledge. It …read more #hacking #projects

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Baby’s First Synth Was Daddy’s First Project

We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s third birthday in sp...

It’s Hard to Make a (Good) Oscillator There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts with the old joke that if you …read more #hacking #projects

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It’s Hard To Make A (Good) Oscillator

There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts with the old joke...

Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II and III The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – …read more #hacking #projects

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Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III

The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained them...

How to Use That Slide Rule You have that slide rule in the back of the closet. Maybe it was from your college days. Maybe it was your Dad’s. Honestly. Do you know how to use …read more #hacking #projects

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How To Use That Slide Rule

You have that slide rule in the back of the closet. Maybe it was from your college days. Maybe it was your Dad’s. Honestly. Do you know how t...

Making Actually Useful Schematics in KiCad [Andrew Greenberg] has some specific ideas for how open-source hardware hackers could do a better job with their KiCad schematics. In his work with students at Portland State University, [Andrew] …read more #hacking #projects

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Making Actually Useful Schematics In KiCad

[Andrew Greenberg] has some specific ideas for how open-source hardware hackers could do a better job with their KiCad schematics. In his work with...

Wiring Up The Railway, All The Live-Long Day For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the obligatory non-stop loop of “All …read more #hacking #projects

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Wiring Up The Railway, All The Live-Long Day

For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the obligatory non-...

Commodore’s Most Popular Computer gets DOOM-style Shooter When people talk about the lack of a DOOM being the doom Commodore home computers, they aren’t talking about the C64, which was deep into obsolescence when demon-slaying suddenly became …read more #hacking #projects

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Commodore’s Most Popular Computer Gets DOOM-style Shooter

When people talk about the lack of a DOOM being the doom Commodore home computers, they aren’t talking about the C64, which was deep into obs...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 346: Melting Metal in the Microwave, Unlocking Car Brakes and Washing Machines, and a Series of Tubes Wait, what? Is it time for the podcast again? Seems like only yesterday that Dan joined Elliot for the weekly rundown of the choicest hacks for the last 1/52 of …read more #hacking #projects

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 346: Melting Metal In The Microwave, Unlocking Car Brakes And Washing Machines, And A Series Of Tubes

Wait, what? Is it time for the podcast again? Seems like only yesterday that Dan joined Elliot for the weekly rundown of the choicest hacks for the...

Sweet Sound Sculpture Helps You Sleep Soundly Have trouble sleeping, or getting to sleep in the first place? You’ve no doubt heard of white noise machines, but know it would be much cooler to make your own. …read more #hacking #projects

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Sweet Sound Sculpture Helps You Sleep Soundly

Have trouble sleeping, or getting to sleep in the first place? You’ve no doubt heard of white noise machines, but know it would be much coole...