Supercon 2023: Building a Portable Vectrex, The Right Way Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
The Vectrex was a unique console from the early 1980s. Developed by a company you’ve...
Scams , Hacks & Breaches
Hands On With a Giant Nixie Tube Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete....
Hacker Tactic: Building Blocks Arya Voronova | usagoldmines.com
The software and hardware worlds have overlaps, and it’s worth looking over the fence to...
Keeping Tabs on an Undergraduate Projects Lab’s Door Status Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Over at the University of Wisconsin’s Undergraduate Projects Lab (UPL) there’s been a way to...
3D Printed Tires, by the Numbers Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
What does it take to make decent tires for your projects? According to this 3D...
Seven New Street Fighter 2 Arcade Rom Hacks Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
is a prolific programmer and hacker with a particular focus on retrocomputing and...
Singapore’s 4300 km Undersea Transmission Line With Australia Clears Regulatory Hurdle Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
The proposed AAPowerLink transmission line between Darwin (Australia) and Singapore. (Credit: Sun Cable) Recently Singapore’s...
$109,000 Drained From 81 Year-Old’s Bank Account in Devastating Social Security Scam: Report Daily Hodl Staff | usagoldmines.com
An 81 year-old woman says she’s lost her entire life savings to a Social Security...
Signal Processing Shenanigans: The Createc SC 01 Pocket Oscilloscope Heidi Ulrich | usagoldmines.com
If you’re passionate about signal processing and retro tech, you’ll want to check out the...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 806: Manyfold — The Dopamine of Open Source Jonathan Bennett | usagoldmines.com
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with James Smith about Manyfold, the self-hosted...
A 3D Printed, Open Source Lathe? Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
has spent the last few years creating some interesting 3D printed tools and...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 806: Manyfold — The Dopamine of Open Source Jonathan Bennett | usagoldmines.com
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with James Smith about Manyfold, the self-hosted...
Silent Antenna Tuning Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
If you want to deliver the maximum power to a load — say from a...
Classic Heathkit OL-1 Scope Gets Some TLC Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
These days, not only are oscilloscopes very common, but even a cheap instrument today would...
Will .IO Domain Names Survive A Geopolitical Rearrangement? Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a major functional component of the modern Internet. We...
Tridora: A Full-Custom CPU Designed For Pascal Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
has created Tridora: an unusual stack-based CPU core intended for FPGA deployment, co-developed...
75-In-One Music Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will have had their interest in electronics as a...
Heathkit Signal Generator Gets an Update Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
correctly intuits that if you are interested in an old Heathkit signal generator, you...
A Modern PC With a Retro OS Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
Despite the rise of ARM processors in more and more computers from embedded systems to...
Give Your SMD Components a Lift Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
When you are troubleshooting, it is sometimes useful to disconnect a part of your circuit...