Whether you only dabble in electronics as a hobby or it’s your full-time job, there are few tools as indispensable as the multimeter. In fact, we’d be willing to bet …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/25/open-source-multimeter-raises-the-bar-for-diy-tools/)
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We know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use one more — especially when it’s as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/25/break-me-off-a-piece-of-that-open-source-serial-adapter/)
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You wouldn’t typically associate graphing calculators with artificial intelligence, but hacker [KermMartian] recently made it happen. The innovative project involved running a neural network directly on a TI-84 Plus CE …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/going-digital-teaching-a-ti-84-handwriting-recognition/)
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Most people know about the numerical constant pi (or π, if you prefer). But did you know that pi has an evil twin represented by the symbol ϖ? As [John …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/pis-evil-twin-goes-for-infinity/)
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If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with buttons is one that’s covered in LEDs — so …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/holiday-jukebox-gets-esp32-home-assistant-support/)
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We all know and love the humble seven-segment display, right? And if you want to make characters as well as numbers, you can do an okay job with sixteen segments …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/a-twenty-segment-display-artistically/)
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An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only existed on paper. That’s not to say there aren’t scanned-in (PDF) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/keeping-track-of-old-computer-manuals-with-the-manx-catalog/)
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[Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and every C#, D, D#, E, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/the-mystery-of-the-messed-up-hammond-x5/)
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Size comparison of a 27 in CRT TV next to a 43 in CRT TV.
" data-image-caption="Size comparison of a 27 in CRT TV next to a 43 in CRT TV.
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Largest-CRT-Thumbnail.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Largest-CRT-Thumbnail.png?w=800">To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their Trinitron line of televisions, Sony launched the KX-45ED1. At forty three inches the screen on this particular model made it the largest tube …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/retrotechtacular-quest-for-the-big-boy-crt-finds-new-home-in-mini-doc/)
[Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals in the 1982 film The Wall, based on the Pink Floyd song of the same name. We suspect …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/calling-pink-floyd/)
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Game Boys have a link cable that lets two of them play together. You know, to battle with a friend’s Pokemon and stuff like that. But who says that it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/watch-any-video-on-your-game-boy-via-link-cable/)
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ap16_pse.jpg?useskin=vector
" data-image-caption="Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package of the Apollo 16 mission (Credit: NASA)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alsep_apollo_16_NASA.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alsep_apollo_16_NASA.jpg?w=800">Although the US’ Moon landings were mostly made famous by the fact that it featured real-life human beings bunny hopping across the lunar surface, they weren’t there just for a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/alsep-apollos-modular-lunar-experiments-laboratory/)
You can buy motorized camera sliders off-the-shelf, but they’re pretty costly. Alternatively, you can make one yourself, and it’s not even that hard if you’re kitted out with a 3D …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/camera-slider-uses-repositionable-rail-to-do-rotational-moves/)
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Rope-climbing robots are the stuff of engineering dreams. As kids, didn’t we all clutter our family home with constructions of towers and strings – Meccano, or Lego – to have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/crawler-challenge-building-rope-traversing-robots/)
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There are many retrocomputer emulation projects out there, and given the relative fragility of the original machines as they enter their fifth decade, emulation seems to be the most common …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/a-pi-pico-makes-a-spectrum-laptop/)
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Open Source Multimeter Raises the Bar for DIY Tools
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/25/open-source-multimeter-raises-the-bar-for-diy-tools/
Break Me Off a Piece of That Open Source Serial Adapter
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/25/break-me-off-a-piece-of-that-open-source-serial-adapter/
Going Digital: Teaching a TI-84 Handwriting Recognition
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/going-digital-teaching-a-ti-84-handwriting-recognition/
Pi’s Evil Twin Goes for Infinity
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/pis-evil-twin-goes-for-infinity/
Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/holiday-jukebox-gets-esp32-home-assistant-support/
A Twenty-Segment Display, Artistically
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/a-twenty-segment-display-artistically/
Keeping Track of Old Computer Manuals with the Manx Catalog
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/keeping-track-of-old-computer-manuals-with-the-manx-catalog/
The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/the-mystery-of-the-messed-up-hammond-x5/
Retrotechtacular: Quest for the “Big Boy” CRT Finds New Home in Mini Doc
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/retrotechtacular-quest-for-the-big-boy-crt-finds-new-home-in-mini-doc/
Calling Pink Floyd
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/calling-pink-floyd/
Watch Any Video on Your Game Boy, Via Link Cable
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/watch-any-video-on-your-game-boy-via-link-cable/
ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/alsep-apollos-modular-lunar-experiments-laboratory/
Camera Slider Uses Repositionable Rail To Do Rotational Moves
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/camera-slider-uses-repositionable-rail-to-do-rotational-moves/
Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/crawler-challenge-building-rope-traversing-robots/
A Pi Pico Makes A Spectrum Laptop
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/a-pi-pico-makes-a-spectrum-laptop/
