Quantum Computing on a Commodore 64 in 200 Lines of BASIC

The term ‘quantum computer’ gets usually tossed around in the context of hyper-advanced, state-of-the-art computing Read More →

Pratt Parsing for Algebraic Expressions

Parsing algebraic expressions is always a pain. If you need to compute, say, 2+4*2, the Read More →

Cooling Paint You Can Actually Make

[NightHawkInLight] has been working on radiative sky paint. That’s a coating that radiates heat in Read More →

Adding Smart Watch Features to Vintage Casio

[Matteo] has been a fan of the Casio F-91W wristwatch virtually since its release in Read More →

The Chess Computer from 1912

Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points Read More →

Watching Paint Dry for Over 100 Years

A Model T Ford customer could famously get their car “in any color he wants, Read More →

Hackaday Links: July 2, 2023

Members of Pixelbar woke up to shocking news on Wednesday morning this week as they Read More →

Importing EAGLE Projects Into KiCad 7, And How To Fix Them

Migrating a PCB design from one CAD software package to another is no one’s favorite Read More →

Fujitsu Proprietary Keyboard Goes PS/2 with a Pico

One of our favorite retro-computing YouTubers, [Clint] from LGR, found himself a very interesting Fujitsu Read More →

Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat

The world of Linux has seen some disquiet over recent weeks following the decision of Read More →

A Quick and Easy Tape Measure Turnstile Antenna for MILSAT Snooping

The number of satellites whizzing by over our heads at any moment is staggering, and Read More →

It’s Easy To Make Gears Out Of Wood

Typically, most of the gears we use in our life are made of plastic or Read More →

Picopad is a New Open Source Game Console

Microcontrollers are so powerful these days that you can build color handheld games with them Read More →

Spy Radio Setup Gets a Tiny Power Supply for Field Operations

[Helge Fyske (LA6NCA)] may not be an actual spy — then again, he may be; Read More →

Rubber Tracked Bicycle Is Horribly Inefficient

Wheeled bikes are efficient machines, and most cycling speed and distance records are held by Read More →

A BASIC Interpreter For The Raspberry Pi Pico

It’s pretty easy to program the Raspberry Pi Pico in Python, or you can use Read More →

A Different Approach to EV Conversions

While there are a lot of exciting electric vehicles finally coming to market, many of Read More →

Bluetooth Battery Monitors That Also Monitor Your Position, Without Asking

These days Bluetooth-based gadgets are everywhere, including for car and solar batteries. After connecting them Read More →

A Browser Approach to Parsing

There are few rites of programmer passage as iconic as writing your first parser. You Read More →

MeArm 3.0: The Pocket-Sized Robot Arm

We all might dream of having an industrial robot arm at our disposal, complete with Read More →

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