Categoria: Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/)
Game dev on iBook G4 with NetBSD
What can you do with a laptop enough to drink even in the Puritan ex-colonies? 21 years is a long…
2025 One Hertz Challenge: 16-Bit Tower Blinks at One Hertz
We’ve seen our share of blinking light projects around here; most are fairly straightforward small projects, but this entry to…
Fusing Cheap eBay Find Into a Digital Rangefinder
One of the earliest commercially-successful camera technologies was the rangefinder — a rather mechanically-complex system that allows a photographer to…
The Death of Industrial Design and the Era of Dull Electronics
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks…
Embedded LEDs for Soft Robots Made from Silicone
Over on their YouTube channel [Science Buddies] shows us how to embed LEDs in soft robots. Soft robots can be…
2025 One Hertz Challenge: A 555, but not as we know it
We did explicitly ask for projects that use a 555 timer for the One Hertz Challenge, but we weren’t expecting…
Video Tape Hides Video Player
While it might not be accurate to say VHS is dead, it’s certainly not a lively format. It continues on…
USB-C-ing All The Things
Wall warts. Plug mounted power supplies that turn mains voltage into low voltage DC on a barrel jack to power…
The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later
Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks…
2025 One-Hertz Challenge: Pokémon Alarm Clock Tells You It’s Time to Build the Very Best
We’ve all felt the frustration of cheap consumer electronics — especially when they aren’t actually cheap. How many of us…
