Traditional joysticks typically use potentiometers or hall effect sensors to determine the displacement of the stick itself ...

The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you ...

The Sony PlayStation Portable, better known as the PSP, is now over two decades old. In its day it was an impressive handheld ...

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, ...

Philadelphia’s homegrown hacker con returns this weekend, and this time it’s starting a day early to pack in even more talks, ...

Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts ...

Before HDMI and DVI there was VGA, and before that? TTL RGB, in which instead of analogue voltages, the connector carried TTL logic voltages. TTL monitors used to be ten a penny because nobody wanted ...

Flying and driving simulators can go as far as money will take you, and at some point it might end up being cheaper to buy a plane or race car than to keep adding capabilities to some of the sim rigs ...

There are many ways to display text on a computer screen, but most require at least some manual effort from the user. It’s annoying enough even if you’re dealing with one machine, but it gets even ...

As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century of radios to choose from, some of them ...

Recently [Riley] got his paws on an old Prusa i3 FDM printer that had clearly seen better days, with a hot-end that had ...