via Hackaday: Remembering CompuServe: the Online Experience Before the World Wide Web
July 1981 cover of CompuServe’s magazine. Long before the advent of the Internet and the…
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via Hackaday: Blowing Up Shell Scripts
One of the most universal experiences of any Linux or Unix user is working through…
via Hackaday: Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open?
The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered…
via Hackaday: Revisiting 1990’s Mac Games That Never Were
was digging around their old MAC hard drives, revisiting some abandoned shareware games…
via Hackaday: Large Language Models on Small Computers
As technology progresses, we generally expect processing capabilities to scale up. Every year, we get…
via Hackaday: Reverse Engineering The Web API of an Akaso EK7000 Action Camera
Recently, bought an Akaso EK7000 action camera for his daughter’s no-smartphones-allowed summer camp,…
via Hackaday: Getting Root on Cheap WiFi Repeaters, the Long Way Around
What can you do with a cheap Linux machine with limited flash and only a…
via Hackaday: Get Thee to Git
While version control used to be reserved for big corporate projects, it is very mainstream…
via Hackaday: Raspberry Pi Becomes Secure VPN Router
OpenWRT is a powerful piece of open-source software that can turn plenty of computers into…
via Hackaday: An 80386 Upgrade Deal and Intel 486 Competitor: the Cyrix Cx486DLC
The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that…
via Hackaday: A Clean Linux Installation For an Android TV Box
Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the…
via Hackaday: CL-32: The Minimum Possible For a Useful Handheld Computer
For almost as long as there have been microcomputers, there have been attempts with varying…
via Hackaday: Putting a Pi in a Container
Docker and other containerization applications have changed a lot about the way that developers create…
via Hackaday: The Computer We All Wish We’d Had In The 8-Bit Era
The 8-bit home computers of yore that we all know and love, without exception as…
via Hackaday: This Week in Security: Malicious Rollback, WHOIS, and More
It’s time to talk about Microsoft’s patch Tuesday, and the odd vulnerability rollback that happened….
via Hackaday: IBM’s Latest Quantum Supercomputer Idea: the Hybrid Classical-Quantum System
Although quantum processors exist today, they are still a long way off from becoming practical…
via Hackaday: The Worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 Erratum Situation
Ian from Dangerous Prototypes demonstrating the RP2350-E9 issue in a Bus Pirate prototype without pull-ups….
via Hackaday: A simple 6DOF Hall Effect ‘Space’ Mouse
The 3DConnexion Space mouse is an interesting device but heavily patent-protected, of course. This seems…
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via Hackaday: New 2 GB Raspberry Pi 5 Has Smaller Die and 30% Lower Idle Power Usage
Recently Raspberry Pi released the 2GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 with a new…
via Hackaday: Flying Lotus is a Framework-Powered Portable All-in-One Computer
One of the things that we love about the modern era of computing is the…
via Hackaday: A Journey Into Unexpected Serial Ports
Through all the generations of computing devices from the era of the teleprinter to the…
via Hackaday: Happy Birthday to Dad, Retrocomputer Style
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail…
via Hackaday: Reverse-Engineering the AMD Secure Processor Inside the CPU
On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become…
via Hackaday: Rebuilding The First Digital Personal Computer
When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple…