18+ hour, 38+ min ago   (539+ words) Older ESP32 chips weren't quite up to 16-bit emulation, but that hadn't stopped people trying; the RetroGo project by [ducalex] already has an SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive emulation mode, along with all the 8-bit you could ask for. But the…...

20+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1883+ words) If you search the Internet for "Clone Wars," you'll get a lot of Star Wars-related pages. But the original Clone Wars took place a long time ago in a galaxy much nearer to ours, and it has a lot to…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (210+ words) [The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. [The 8-Bit Guy] goes into the hardware that was used, how the video system works, how the audio system works, and what peripheral hardware was supported, including cassette drives and…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (113+ words) While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue, for this project, the key issue is capacity. That's because [DocJade's] goal is playing…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (246+ words) An SD Card Of Your Own For Microcontroller Projects'Hackaday If you've wiring up a microcontroller and need some kind of storage, it's likely you'll reach for an SD card Compared to other ways of holding data on your project, SD…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1055+ words) All right, I'll cut to the chase: Cheap03xD is mainly so cheap because the PCB falls within a 10 x 10 cm footprint. The point was to make a very affordable keyboard " all the parts come to ~40 Euro (~$47). So it would seem that…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (980+ words) In recent years, however, a different design philosophy has been gaining ground. Immutable Linux distributions like Fedora Silverblue, openSUSE MicroOS, and NixOS dramatically reduce the chances an installation behaves erratically by making direct changes to the underlying system either impossible…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (248+ words) We're struck not for the first time by the high quality of the construction in this piece of test equipment; it's not only substantial but well designed for maintenance and disassembly. [W3AXL] sensibly leaves the RF part alone, but both CRT…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (175+ words) This week, Hackaday's Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so. On What's That…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (242+ words) These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in the olden days, one would have to manually "read more These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty…...