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Front USB ports on your PC.
The finished product. Once a year I take some time to open up my PC and give it a...
via Hackaday: An Arduino Triggers a Flash With Sound
To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a…
via Hackaday: Access the Information Superhighway With a Mac Plus
For some time now, Apple has developed a reputation for manufacturing computers and phones that…
via Hackaday: Compact Dedicated News Reader Always Brings You CBC
Your phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in…
via Hackaday: Experimenting with MicroPython on the Bus Pirate 5
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface…
via Hackaday: Solve: An ESP32-Based Equation Solving Calculator
We’re suckers for good-looking old-school calculators, so this interesting numerical equation-solving calculator by caught…
via Hackaday: PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer…
via Hackaday: KolibriOS: The Operating System That Fits on a 1.44 MB 3.5″ Floppy Disk
While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure…
via Hackaday: The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
Many readers will be familiar with the idea of a glitching attack, introducing electrical noise…
via Hackaday: Ham Radio in the Internet Age
Even if you are relatively young, you can probably think back on what TV was…
via Hackaday: A VIC-20 with no VIC
has started a new video series to show his latest recreation of a Commodore…
via Hackaday: There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One
It’s not uncommon for a new distro version to come out, and a grudging admission…
via Hackaday: Pi Zero Power Optimization Leaves No Stone Unturned
If you’ve ever designed a battery-powered device with a Pi Zero, you have no doubt…
via Hackaday: Raspberry Pi RP2350-E9 Erratum Redefined as Input Mode Leakage Current
Although initially defined as an issue with GPIO inputs when configured with the internal pull-downs…
via Hackaday: A Brand New USB Modem In The 2020s
The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past…
via Hackaday: PC Floppy Copy Protection: Electronic Arts Interlock
Continuing the series on floppy copy protection, examines Electronic Arts’ Interlock system. This was…
via Hackaday: Usagi Electric’s Paper Tape Reader is Ready to Hop With the Tube Computer
After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for…
via Hackaday: Learn GPU Programming With Simple Puzzles
Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks…
via Hackaday: Linux, Now In Real Time
Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones,…
via Hackaday: The Raspberry Pi 500 Hints At Its Existence
It’s fairly insignificant in the scheme of things, and there’s no hardware as yet for…
via Hackaday: This Week in Security: The Internet Archive, Glitching With a Lighter, and Firefox In-the-wild
The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like…
via Hackaday: Hack On Self: Collecting Data
A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically,…
via Hackaday: Reverse Engineering A Keyboard Driver Uncovers A Self-Destruct Code
Should you be able to brick a keyboard just by writing a driver to flash…
via Hackaday: No Z80? No Problem!
Earlier this year Zilog stopped production of the classic 40-pin DIP Z80 microprocessor, a move…