NYC Hangs Up Its Last Pay Phone

From hackaday.com 1 month ago in Blogs

It was a melancholy Monday this week in the Big Apple as the last public payphone was uprooted from midtown Manhattan near Times Square and hauled away like so much …read more

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An Epic Tale Of Pirate Radio In Its Golden Age

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

With music consumption having long ago moved to a streaming model in many parts of the world, it sometimes feels as though, just like the rotary telephone dial, kids might …read more

Building a Serial Bus To Save an Old Hard Drive

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

Universal Serial Bus has been the de facto standard for sending information to and from computer peripherals for almost two decades, but despite the word “universal” in the name this …read more

Designing a LoRa Gateway During a Part Shortage

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

It’s fair to say that right now is probably the worst possible time you could choose to design a new piece of hardware. Of course the reality is that, even …read more

Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: The LowPow ShortKeyboard Can Work on Your Desk or Out in the Field

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

For some power users, the one-hundred-and-something keys on regular keyboards just aren’t enough for their everyday tasks. Macro keypads are a popular way of extending one’s input capabilities, and there …read more

2022 Hackaday Prize: Reuse, Recycle, Revamp Finalists

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The 2022 Hackaday Prize is focused on taking care of the planet. The theme of our second challenge round, “Reduce, Recycle, Revamp” is all about tailoring your projects to make …read more

Food Irradiation Detector Doesn’t Use Banana for Scale

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

How do the potatoes in that sack keep from sprouting on their long trip from the field to the produce section? Why don’t the apples spoil? To an extent, the …read more

Lenses: From Fire Starters To Smart Phones and VR

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

In antiquity, we see examples of magnifying crystals formed into a biconvex shape as early as the 7th century BC. Whether the people of that period used them either for …read more

Reverse-Engineering Forgotten Konami Arcade Hardware

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

When fully-3D video games started arriving in the early 90s, some companies were more prepared for the change than others. Indeed, it would take nearly a decade of experimentation before …read more

Homebrew Optical Sensor Helps Your Diesel Pass the Smoke Test

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

We’ve all heard of the smoke test, and we know that it’s the lowest possible bar for performance of an electronic device. If it doesn’t burst into flames when power …read more

Developing a Custom WearOS Watch Face

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

When you think about customizing the face of a smartwatch, you probably imagine something akin to selecting a new wallpaper on an Android device, or maybe tweaking the color scheme …read more