The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you ...
Philadelphia’s homegrown hacker con returns this weekend, and this time it’s starting a day early to pack in even more talks, ...
We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are, and two don’t count. Yes, ...
Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts ...
The Sony PlayStation Portable, better known as the PSP, is now over two decades old. In its day it was an impressive handheld ...
It’s one of the great mysteries of computing, how somehow in the Year Of OLlama 2026, tape remains the god of cheap storage.
DARPA money. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, regularly throws round sweet, sweet tax dollars to push ...
Game jams are a fun competition in which the aim is to write a game under a particular theme while under a time constraint, ...
Retrocomputer enthusiasts have a bad rap as nerds who just want to play old video games. There’s some truth in this, but the ...
Recently [Ken Shirriff] got handed a mystery IC by [CuriousMarc] who had found said IC in a box of various old chips.
Although the demise of the Zilog Z80 processor has long been predicted, it would seem that this moment has finally arrived.
Atomic clocks are super accurate. But, unsurprisingly, some atomic clocks are better than others, depending on your ...