Drop-in Vintage CPU Replacements with the tranZPUter Project
One of the struggles with vintage computer systems is that many of the ICs in them have no modern-day version that you can just purchase and drop-in. Creating replacements that …read more
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Nintendo takes down Switch emulators and mod chip firmware in massive GitHub DMCA sweep
Jacqueline Thomas reports for IGN that Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub, aimed at two Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, and at firmware for mod chips. The firmware part covered 144…
Stockfish: a free and strong UCI chess engine
Stockfish is a free, open source chess engine from the project of the same name, derived from Glaurung 2.1. It analyzes chess positions and works out the best moves. It talks to chess apps over the UCI protocol, so the…
Is the Raspberry Pi 400 Underappreciated? #piday #raspberrypi
Are you sleeping on the Pi 400? It might not be the flashiest or newest but Raspberry Pi’s first complete personal computer integrated into a keyboard still packs a punch. And for the price? it might just be the perfect…
Hackaday Podcast Episode 394: Linux in Weird Places, Yet More Hidden SDRs, and a Supercon Wrapup
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi are back from Supercon, and they’ve got plenty of thoughts to share about it. But before they discuss this weekend’s higlights, they’ll cover …read more
Rare 1989 Apple Computer factory tour behind-the-scenes original film restoration
The Computer History Archives Project (CHAP) has posted a partially restored 1989 Apple Computer film, an 11 minute tour of the company’s Service Operations Center at 900 East Hamilton Avenue in Campbell, California. It…
A stunning 500-gigapixel map of the universe is revealed by the Euclid Space Telescope
VideoFromSpace, the Space.com channel on YouTube, has posted a look at the latest release from the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope: a 500-gigapixel mosaic of millions of stars and galaxies. The video…
DOOM on a USB flash drive
Aaron Christophel has ported DOOM to a USB flash drive, and he shows it running in a video on his YouTube channel. The drive is a MOVESPEED MSSU10, which has a small LCD built-in. Out of the box that screen shows the…
Oh my Word! Microsoft retires compatibility options, because who needs layouts to stay put
Richard Speed at The Register reports that Microsoft is retiring a set of legacy layout settings in the Word desktop app, which could rearrange documents created or last saved in Word 2010 or earlier. Compatibility Mode…
John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: Sparkline Graphs
#circuitpythonparsec Make Edward Tufte proud and draw some sparkline graphs in CircuitPython! Try out the code example To learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org
Endangered, colorful garter snakes released into the wild for the first time
Andrew Paul, writing for Popular Science, reports that 62 young San Francisco garter snakes born at the San Francisco Zoo were released at sites in San Mateo County this fall. It’s the first release of its kind for the…
Build a $4 AI desk assistant with an ESP32-S3 chip
Julian Horsey writes at Geeky Gadgets about a voice-controlled desk assistant built by EDISON SCIENCE CORNER around the $4 ESP32S3 0 microcontroller. It sets timers, reports the weather and shows a social media status…
Sony brings back its 1979 Walkman headphones with retro foam ear pads
Kat Barandy writes at designboom that Sony has revived the headphones that shipped with the first Walkman, the TPS-L2, in 1979. The new MDR-3R keeps the thin silver headband, the exposed metal arms and the small on-ear…
DSPi ported to the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W bare metal
Weeb Labs has posted a first preview of DSPi running on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, published as a release on GitHub. It’s a ready-to-write SD card image, and DSPi’s own firmware (v1.1.6) runs unchanged on a bare-metal…
The complete history of PlayStation 3
ObsoleteSony has posted a history of the PlayStation 3 on Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter, starting with the November 11, 2006 Japanese launch of about 100,000 consoles. Six days later it reached North America at $499 for…
8088 Domination – how did they show video on CGA?
MobyGamer, also known as Trixter, wrote up how 8088 Domination plays full-motion video in CGA graphics mode on a 1981 IBM PC. In a 2007 talk,, he’d called it impossible: 24fps of 16KB CGA frames works out to 384KB/s,…
Satellite images of sand dunes migrating in Egypt
Jason Kottke posted on kottke.org about satellite images that show sand dunes on the move in Egypt. Comparing pictures of the same stretch of desert taken years apart shows the dunes shifting across the landscape. The…
The 500 most-used parts in open-source hardware designs
Lectronz is billed as the marketplace for makers, having 350 sellers with over 22,000 orders. They now have a part search. Type in a electronic part number and the search will let you know what that part is, links to…
Shine bright for Voyager’s light-day
NASA is marking a milestone on Tuesday, Nov. 17: Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth, farther than any other human-made object has traveled. It’s a measure of distance, not time, and no spacecraft has reached it…
No soldering required for an iPod upgrade
Marcin Wichary wrote on his blog Unsung about Sprout, a project from a studio called Certain Things. It’s a modern replacement motherboard for old iPods. The original board comes out, and the new one brings a current…
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