Visiting The FACOM 128B 1958 Relay Computer
If you study the history of computing you might have heard of the FACOM 128B, a Japanese relay computer from 1958. It holds the distinction of …
Behind Amazon’s Doors Is A Library
Some people love Amazon, while others think it has become too big and invasive. But you have to admit, they build gigantic and apparently reliable systems. …
Inkjet Printing On The Cheap With A Continuous Ink System
Inkjet printers are cheap to buy, but expensive to run. Replacement cartridges can easily cost double the price of the hardware itself, leading many to decry …
Swapping The ROMs In Mini Arcade Cabinets
You’ve probably seen a few of these miniature arcade games online or in big box retailers: for $20 USD or so you get scaled-down version of …
David Williams Is “FPGA-Curious” | Hackaday
If you hadn’t noticed, we had a bit of an FPGA theme running at this year’s Superconference. Why? Because the open-source FPGA toolchain is ripening, and …
Chandrayaan-2 Found By Citizen Scientist; Reminds Us Of Pluto Discovery
What does Pluto — not the dog, but the non-Planet — have in common with the Vikram lunar lander launched by India? Both were found by …
Hackaday Podcast 045: Raspberry Pi Bug, Rapidly Aging Vodka, Raining On The Cloud, And This Wasn’t A Supercon Episode
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams talk over the last three weeks full of hacks. Our first “back to normal” podcast after Supercon turns out …
Tuning Up The ThinkGeek Star Trek Intercom Panel
On Star Trek, all Kirk and friends had to do was snap the button on the always conveniently located intercom panel, start talking, and the intended recipient …
This Week In Security: Tegra Bootjacking, Leaking SSH, And StrandHogg
CVE-2019-5700 is a vulnerability in the Nvidia Tegra bootloader, discovered by Ryan Grachek, and breaking first here at Hackaday. To understand the vulnerability, one first has …
Not-Quite-So-Hot Stuff: A Thermal Exam On The Latest Raspberry Pi
When the Raspberry Pi 4 was first launched, one of its few perceived flaws was that it had a propensity to get extremely hot. It’s evidently …