Picasso and the Z80 microprocessor are not two things we often think about at the same time. One is a renowned artist born in ...

Low-quality image placeholders (LQIPs) have a solid place in web page design. There are many different solutions but the main ...

Telescopes are great tools for observing the heavens, or even surrounding landscapes if you have the right vantage point. You ...

Historically, efforts to create original games and tools, port over open source emulators, and explore a game console’s hardware and software have been generally lumped together under the ...

Brain-to-speech interfaces have been promising to help paralyzed individuals communicate for years. Unfortunately, many systems have had significant latency that has left them lacking somewhat in ...

As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To this day it’s quite literally the ...

If you’ve only been around for the Internet age, you may not realize that Hackaday is the successor of electronics magazines.

A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, ...

Rear-view mirrors are important safety tools, but [Mike Kelly] observed that cyclists (himself included) faced hurdles to ...

One might be tempted to think that re-creating a film robot from the 1950s would be easy given all the tools and technology ...

In the early days of computing, and well into the era where home computers were common but not particularly powerful, ...

Vintage hi-fi gear has a look and feel all its own. [ThunderOwl] happened to be playing in this space, turning a ...