Categoria: Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/)

A Vintage Radiator Core, From Scratch
There are sadly few 1914 Dennis fire engines still on the road, so when the one owned by Imperial College…

Making Sense of Real-Time Operating Systems in 2024
The best part about real-time OS (RTOS) availability in 2024 is that we developers are positively spoiled for choice, but…

WAV2VGM Plays Audio Via OPL3 Synthesis
Once upon a time, computers didn’t really have enough resources to play back high-quality audio. It took too much RAM…

Retrotechtacular: Color TV
We have often wondered if people dreamed in black and white before the advent of photography. While color pictures eventually…

A Brief History of Cyrix, or How to Get Sued By Intel a Lot
In a new installment on computer history, [Bradford Morgan White] takes us through the sordid history of Cyrix, as this…

Teaching Computers to Read — Sort Of
If you ask someone who grew up in the late 1970s or early 1980s what taught them a lot about…

You Wouldn’t Download a Chair…But You Could
[Morley Kert] had a problem. He’s a big fan of the lovely Fortune Chair from Heller Furniture. Only, he didn’t…

Thermoelectric Blaster Flings Ice Projectiles
Nerf blasters are fun and all, but flinging foam can get old. Picking it up again, even moreso. This blaster…

Automated Weed Spraying Drone Needs No Human Intervention
Battling weeds can be expensive, labor intensive and use large amounts of chemicals. To help make this easier [NathanBuilds] has…

Retrogadgets: Oscilloscope Cameras
Today, if you want to get a picture from your oscilloscope — maybe to send to a collaborator or to…