Jenny’s Daily Drivers: KolibriOS 0.7.7

It’s a fact of life when starting a computer, that booting into whatever operating system you use will take a while. Mine takes somewhere around 30 seconds, and yours probably …read more

Know Your Food: Organic Production

A few weeks ago we published the first in a new series of articles, Know Your Food. It was born out of the realisation that most people know surprisingly little about …read more

Review: The Tanmatsu, A Year On

About 18 months ago, we brought you a sneak peek at a handheld that started life in the Dutch conference badge scene. At the time it showed promise, but its …read more

UDP Broadcasting And Easily Finding Network Services

Local area networks (LANs) that use technologies like Ethernet and Wi-Fi are incredibly useful for letting devices talk with each other. Yet a core problem here is knowing which devices …read more

Microsoft’s Topological Quantum Computing Claims Once Again In Question

A central problem with the arguably overhyped field of quantum computing remains the difficulty in objectively ascertaining performance and new developments, as much here relies on indirect measurements. Such is …read more

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A Brief History Of The Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

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By Al Williams | July 9, 2026

How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 …read more
Fixing A Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC

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By Jenny List | July 9, 2026

One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you never quite know what will come your way. …read more
Die Casting Comes Home

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By Tyler August | July 9, 2026

You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects …read more
C64 Finally Gets The SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For

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By Tyler August | July 8, 2026

If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted …read more
IBM Home Director: Home Automation In 1996

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By Maya Posch | July 8, 2026

Back in the 1990s IBM had a pretty sizeable presence in the PC market, including its rather spiffy Aptiva series of PCs. Naturally their PCs had to feature heavily in …read more
An Analog Synth For The Modern World

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By Jenny List | July 8, 2026

We cover so many projects here at Hackaday that lead the author down a rabbit hole of technological investigation that distracts us from the task of bringing them to you. …read more
Pi 5 Becomes ALSA-Compatible TOSLINK Sound Card

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By Tyler August | July 8, 2026

This is one of those hacks that makes you stop in your tracks and say, “wait, you can do that!?” — before realizing, oh, yes, of course you can do …read more

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