https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/super-mario-64-now-with-microtransactions/
Besides being a fun way to pass time, video gaming is a surprisingly affordable hobby per unit time. A console or budget PC might only cost a few hundred...
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https://hackaday.io/project/10051-meinenigma
A electronic enigma replica
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https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/a-touchscreen-midi-controller-for-the-diy-set/
MIDI controllers are easy to come by these days. Many modern keyboards have USB functionality in this regard, and there are all kinds of pads and gadgets that...
midi controllertouchscreendiysethackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/01/08/eight-segas-singing/
Way back in the dark ages, before the average computer could play back high quality recorded audio, things were done differently. Music and sounds were stored...
eightsinginghackaday
https://hackaday.io/project/204557-pr3-scara
a highly functional, highly affordable robotic arm, made entirely of 3d printed parts and off-the-shelf components.
hackadayio
https://hackaday.io/submissions/prize2018/list
Browse prize submissions for The 2018 Hackaday Prize on Hackaday.io!
hackadayprizeio
https://hackaday.com/2018/01/31/router-rebooter-eliminates-hassles/
Some low-end or older routers might get you a decent WiFi network in your house or apartment, but often these cheaply made devices are plagued with subtle...
routereliminateshackaday
https://hackaday.com/2017/01/21/dreamblaster-x2-a-modern-midi-synth-for-your-sound-blaster-card/
Back in the 90s, gamers loaded out their PCs with Creative’s Sound Blaster family of sound cards. Those who were really serious about audio could connect...
sound blastermodernmidisynth
https://hackaday.com/tag/rp2040/
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https://hackaday.com/2026/02/15/hackaday-links-february-15-2026/
It probably won’t come as much of a surprise to find that most of the Hackaday staff aren’t exactly what you’d call sports fanatics, so we won’t judge if you...
hackadaylinksfebruary
https://hackaday.com/2016/11/18/the-basic-issue-with-retro-computers/
If you are interested in how a computer works at the hardware grass-roots level, past all the hardware and software abstractions intended to make them easier...
basicissueretrocomputershackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/an-rpn-calculator-and-a-bonus-vfd-clock-from-casio-revival/
Have you heard the saying “the problem is the solution”? It seems to originate in the permaculture movement, but it can apply equally well to...
calculatorbonusvfdclockcasio
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/11/network-infrastructure-and-demon-slaying-virtualization-expands-what-a-desktop-can-do/
The original DOOM is famously portable — any computer made within at least the last two decades, including those in printers, heart monitors, passenger...
network infrastructuredemonslayingvirtualizationexpands
https://hackaday.io/project/197654-fungesector
A Befunge-93 interpreter which runs on x86 real mode
hackadayio
https://hackaday.io/?from=had&utm_source=hackaday&utm_medium=hpfeaturedprojects&utm_campaign=blog
Discover. Get inspired. Repeat. Hack things for the better. Learn and grow from the example of others. Pass it on by showing off your own hardware adventures.
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https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/mag-lev-lemming-refuses-to-fall/
Are you ready to feel old? Lemmings just turned thirty-five. The famous puzzle game first came out in February of 1991 for the Commodore Amiga, before...
maglevrefusesfallhackaday
https://hackaday.io/project/175082-remoticon-the-hackers-guide-to-hardware-debugging
This workshop is focused on reverse engineering and utilizing hardware-level debuggers.
hackersguidehardwaredebugginghackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/04/18/browsing-modern-day-bbs-on-the-epson-px-8-laptop/
As you read this, there are still people chatting away on Bulletin Board Systems all over the world. Running on newly written software and without the need to...
modern daybrowsingbbsepsonpx
https://hackaday.io/submissions/component-abuse-challenge/list
Browse prize submissions for Component Abuse Challenge on Hackaday.io!
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/07/lets-buy-commodore-well-somebody-is/
When a man wearing an Atari T-shirt tells you he’s buying Commodore it sounds like the plot for an improbable 1980s movie in which Nolan Bushnell and...
letbuycommodorewellsomebody
https://hackaday.io/fun88kycbrcom
FUN88 là một trong những nhà cái trực tuyến chuyên cung cấp dịch vụ giải trí hàng đầu châu Á và Việt Nam.
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https://hackaday.com/2026/01/16/optimizing-software-with-zero-copy-and-other-techniques/
An important aspect in software engineering is the ability to distinguish between premature, unnecessary, and necessary optimizations. A strong case can be...
softwarezerocopytechniqueshackaday
https://hackaday.io/project/202330-aefc-ambient-energy-field-converter
A system designed to capture and collect energy from EMFs, now being refined to enhance circuit efficiency and output.
ambientenergyfieldconverterhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/21/power-tool-packs-make-a-portable-powerhouse/
The revolution in portable and cordless appliances has meant that we now own far fewer mains-powered gadgets than we might once have done, but it hasn’t...
power toolpacksmakeportablepowerhouse
https://hackaday.io/submissions/prize2021/list
Browse prize submissions for 2021 Hackaday Prize on Hackaday.io!
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https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/building-an-escape-room-lockbox-with-the-esp32-cheap-yellow-display-cyd/
Here’s something fun from [Chad Kapper] over on HackMakeMod: Escape Room Lockbox with the Cheap Yellow Display. You may have heard of the “cheap...
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https://hackaday.io/project/196056-vmeste-bus-6-ch-intelligent-serial-io-vsixer6
VMEbus and STEbus 6-channel Intelligent Serial I/O
stebuschintelligentserial
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/18/there-are-10-kinds-of-computers-in-the-world/
There’s an old joke that there are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary, those who don’t, and those who didn’t see a base...
kindscomputersworldhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/01/03/tips-on-building-the-blackice-bbc-micro/
You can look at pictures and video of the Grand Canyon, Paris, New York City or anywhere else, and yet when you finally see those places with your own eyes it...
bbc microtipsbuildinghackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/creating-the-worlds-most-efficient-quadcopter-drone/
Although not a typical focus of people who fly quadcopter drones for a hobby or living, endurance flying has a certain appeal to it for the challenge it...
quadcopter dronecreatingefficienthackaday
https://hackaday.io/project/180835-quadrupedal-robot-m1
Self made quadrupedal robot in progress. Every part is designed in fusion 360 and then 3d printed with an ender 3 pro and a resin printer.
robothackadayio
https://hackaday.com/2021/01/27/reconstructing-data-from-a-corrupt-apple-floppy-disk/
Back in 1990 [Benjamin Zotto] wrote – while in elementary school – a dog racing game called Wonderland 2. The BASIC source code and images for the...
floppy diskdatacorruptapplehackaday
https://hackaday.io/?from=had&utm_source=hackaday&utm_medium=menu&utm_campaign=blog
Discover. Get inspired. Repeat. Hack things for the better. Learn and grow from the example of others. Pass it on by showing off your own hardware adventures.
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https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/the-random-laser/
When we first heard the term “random laser,” we did a double-take. After all, most ordinary sources of light are random. One defining...
randomlaserhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/rp2040-powers-a-midi-controlled-soundboard/
When you’re livestreaming, it can be tempting to fire off all kinds of wacky sound effects like you’re a morning radio DJ back in the heady days of 1995. If...
powersmidicontrolledsoundboardhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/01/29/inventing-the-microprocessor-the-intel-4004/
We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that...
inventingintelhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/05/07/raspberry-pi-becomes-cycle-exact-commodore-drive-emulator/
The Commodore 1541 disk drive is unlike anything you’ll ever see in modern computer hardware. At launch, the 1541 cost almost as much as the Commodore...
raspberry pibecomescycleexactcommodore
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/the-bnc-connector-and-how-it-got-that-way/
When I started working in a video production house in the early 1980s, it quickly became apparent that there was a lot of snobbery in terms of equipment. These...
bncconnectorgotwayhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/the-music-of-the-sea/
For how crucial whales have been for humanity, from their harvest for meat and oil to their future use of saving the world from a space probe, humans knew very...
musicseahackaday
https://hackaday.com/2016/11/30/one-bit-one-instruction-discrete-cpu/
There is a certain benefit to being an early adopter. If you were around when Unix or MSDOS had a handful of commands, it wasn’t hard to learn. Then you...
onebitinstructiondiscretecpu
https://hackaday.io/project/204878-cybermesh-lorachat
A Decentralized Communication Device for Emergency Situations
hackadayio
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/preserving-floppy-disks/
Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the...
preservingfloppyhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2015/12/03/retrocomputing-on-a-chip/
New electrical components enable us to reconstruct old wiring more efficiently. Especially, the accessible and cheap FPGA kits which offer the possibility to...
retrocomputingchiphackaday
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/06/the-6809-8-bit-microcomputer-a-father-son-odyssey/
If you’re nostalgic for the golden age of microprocessors and dream of building your own computer, this story might spark your imagination. [Eric Lind],...
father sonbitodysseyhackaday
https://hackaday.io/signin?returnUrl=%2Fhackers%2Fall%2Fproject%2F203936%2Ffollowing
Discover. Get inspired. Repeat. Hack things for the better. Learn and grow from the example of others. Pass it on by showing off your own hardware adventures.
loghackadayio
https://hackaday.io/project/167859-80c85-and-mmu-for-rc2014-bp80
An 80C85 CPU card for the RC2014 bus that includes a simple MMU for use with linear memory cards.
mmuhackadayio
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/the-many-sprites-interpretation-of-amiga-mechanics/
The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite the...
manyspritesinterpretationamigamechanics
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/22/optimize-your-paper-planes-with-this-cardboard-wind-tunnel/
We at Hackaday are great fans of hands-on classroom projects promoting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects – after all, inspiring...
wind tunneloptimizepaperplanescardboard
https://hackaday.io/dos
Hi, I'm dos, I do mobile GNU/Linux stuff, sometimes FLOSS games and many other things.
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https://hackaday.io/project/204882-zeno-robot
Zeno is a hybrid robot--could be AI controlled, could be local--that is large enough to bring a drink or remove trash.
zenorobothackadayio
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/12/making-a-crt-spin-right-round-round-round/
If you’ve got a decent CRT monitor, you can usually adjust the settings to make sure the image scans nicely across the whole display. But what if you...
makingcrtspinrightround
https://hackaday.com/2018/02/22/quickbasic-lives-on-with-qb64/
When I got my first computer, a second hand 386 running MS-DOS 6.22, I didn’t have an Internet connection. But I did have QuickBASIC installed and a stack of...
liveshackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/03/30/a-retrocomputer-disk-on-a-chip/
There have been a lot of different mass storage methods over the relatively short lifespan of the computer. Magnetic tapes, drums, all sorts of disks, and...
diskchiphackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/24/the-unexpected-joys-of-hacking-an-old-kindle/kindlehack_serial2/
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https://hackaday.com/2018/03/07/a-bit-more-than-a-microphone-the-electret-story/
When designing a microphone assembly the other day, I reached for an electret condenser microphone capsule without thinking. To be strictly accurate I ordered...
bitmicrophonestoryhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/mister-upgrades-vintage-computer-recreations/
The MiST project provides an FPGA-based platform for recreating vintage computers. We recently saw an upgraded board — MiSTer — with a similar goal...
misterupgradesvintagecomputerhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/20/its-doom-but-in-teletext/
We’ve seen the 1993 id Software classic DOOM running on so many pieces of unexpected hardware, as “Will it run DOOM?” has become something of...
doomteletexthackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/27/esp8266-home-computer-hides-unexpected-gems/
With a BASIC interpreter and free run throughout their hardware, home computers like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 used to be a pervasive way to light that...
computerhidesunexpectedgemshackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/16/retrotechtacular-mr-wizard-jams-with-ibm/
You may not remember [Mr. Wizard], but he was a staple of nerd kids over a few decades, teaching science to kids via the magic of television. The Computer...
mrwizardjamsibmhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/09/20/fixing-an-ibm-1401-computer-to-get-it-printing-again/
The IBM 1401 is a classic computer which IBM marketed throughout the 1960s, late enough for it to have used transistors rather than vacuum tubes, which is...
fixingibmcomputergetprinting
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/19/915-mhz-forecast-rolling-your-own-offline-weather-station/
There are a lot of options for local weather stations; most of them, however, are sensors tied to a base station, often requiring an internet connection to...
weather stationforecastrollingofflinehackaday
https://hackaday.com/submit-a-tip/
We depend on the Hackaday community to help us find all the fresh hacks the Internet has to offer. Whenever you see something you think should be discussed on...
submittiphackaday
https://hackaday.com/2019/12/09/teardown-168-in-1-retro-handheld-game/
The holidays are upon us, and that can mean many furrowed brows trying to figure out what token gift they can give out this year as stocking-stuffers....
teardownretrohandheldgamehackaday
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/08/teardown-quirky-egg-minder/
Many of the biggest stars are hesitant to do sequels, believing that the magic captured the first time around is hard to reproduce in subsequent productions....
teardownquirkyeggminderhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/14/esp32-p4-powers-retro-handheld-after-a-transplant/
The ESP32-P4 is the new hotness on the microcontroller market. With RISC-V architecture and two cores running 400 MHz, to ears of a certain vintage it sounds...
powersretrohandheldtransplanthackaday
https://hackaday.com/2018/01/28/hackaday-links-january-28-2018/
In case you haven’t heard, we have a 3D printing contest going on right now. It’s the Repairs You Can Print Contest. The idea is simple: show off...
hackadaylinksjanuary
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/bus-raider-allows-classic-micro-emulation-on-an-rc2014/
If you were lucky enough to own one of the crop of 1980s 8-bit computers, did you ever pause to consider how its graphics worked? Maybe the really expensive...
busraiderallowsclassicmicro
https://hackaday.io/project/167398-kz80
hackadayio
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/22/your-own-sinclair-scientific-calculator/
We’ve talked about the Sinclair scientific calculator before many times, and for some of us it was our first scientific calculator. If you can’t...
sinclairscientificcalculatorhackaday
https://hackaday.io/33winnvred
33win | 33winnv.red - Nơi biến giấc mơ thành hiện thực
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https://hackaday.io/project/170895-conveyor-system-for-delta-robot-one
Additional system for Delta-Robot One to transport things into the robots workingspace
conveyorsystemdeltarobotone
https://hackaday.com/2020/05/06/inputs-of-interest-im-building-an-ergodox/
I’ve been using my Kinesis Advantage keyboard for two months, and I love it. I’ll never go back to a regular keyboard again if I can help it. There...
inputsinterestbuildinghackaday
https://hackaday.com/2020/07/06/the-spin-cycle-washing-machine-motor-converts-10-speed-to-e-bike/
The “Spin Cycle” is an amazing electric bicycle built using a motor salvaged from a washing machine; when the puns are this perfect you have to...
washing machinespincyclemotorspeed
https://hackaday.io/project/204808-diy-adding-wi-fi-to-an-electric-water-heater
This project focuses on adding Wi-Fi connectivity to a Midea electric water heater, integrating it into a smart home system.
electric water heaterwi fidiyaddinghackaday
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/30/an-amstrad-pcw-for-the-21st-century/
If you were a computer-mad teen in the late 1980s, you were probably in the process of graduating from an 8-bit machine to a 16-bit one, maybe an Amiga, or an...
amstradcenturyhackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/neat-techniques-to-make-interactive-light-sculptures/
[Voria Labs] has created a whole bunch of artworks referred to as Lumanoi Interactive Light Sculptures. A new video explains the hardware behind these...
neattechniquesmakeinteractivelight
https://hackaday.io/project/196214-cyber-clock-an-iot-oled-desk-clock
Cyber Clock an IoT OLED Desk Clock With Hygro-Thermometer
cyberclockiotoleddesk
https://hackaday.com/2017/08/22/fake-ram-identifying-a-counterfeit-chip/
[Robert Baruch] had something strange on his hands. He had carefully decapped 74LS189 16×4 static RAM, only to find that it wasn’t a RAM at...
fakeramcounterfeitchiphackaday