The late 1970s were an interesting time for microcomputers. The rousing success of things like the 8080, the Z80, the 6800, and the 6502 made everyone wanted a piece of the action. National ...

An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet ...

Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We ...

If you’re hunting for a bench power supply, you’ll quickly notice options dry up above 48 V or so, and you definitely won’t ...

OpenAI have just released gpt-oss, an AI large language model (LLM) available for local download and offline use licensed ...

We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and found it only produced illegal instruction ...

Laser-engraving a cylindrical object usually requires a rotary attachment, which is a motorized holder that rotates a cylindrical object in sync with the engraver. But [Samcraft] shows that engravi… ...

Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...

Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. [Erich Styger] has, ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...

The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it ...