1+ day, 31+ min ago   (228+ words) A 386 PC For Your RP2350 hackaday.com We’re at a fortunate moment: microcontrollers available at modest prices are edging into the capability level previously reserved for full-fat systems and can, through emulation, run software beyond classic 8-bit home computers, consoles, or…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (33+ words) You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren't retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit CPU,......

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (35+ words) The 2026 Hackaday Superconference is just around the corner in November. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been having an annual gathering for so long, but this is number ten. Every year, it’s a g......

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (35+ words) Although hard disks weren't a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word 'affordable', naturally. This i......

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (383+ words) Hackaday The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– your smartphone We’ve seen a number of…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (35+ words) Before LEGO train sets moved to battery-powered locomotives with plastic rails, all of them worked pretty much like any other train set of the era. This meant metal rails that the locomotive's wheels......

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (34+ words) The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Colossus. Vast machines that required the budget of a country at war to build, andfill......

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (36+ words) The Clavichord needs no introduction to fans of Early Music, and a lengthy one to literally everyone else. Even classical music buffs who have heard of Bach's works for the "Well-Tempered Clavier" --......

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (34+ words) Although we often find ourselves drowning in a seemingly unending sea of portable devices that are effectively e-waste once an internal component gives out, it's good to remind ourselves that there ar......

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (118+ words) Hackaday It’s said that a teenager given a rotary telephone in 2026 would be mystified by its operation, yet there are enough surviving instruments for them to be an attractive target for a project But just what project? [fregacmols] is…...