At this point, you’re likely aware that you can store your wireless network’s credentials in a QR code, so that anyone who wants to connect
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Recreating The Sounds Of The ’90s With A YM3812 Synthesizer
One reason the x86 PC became the dominant game platform in the early 1990s was the availability of affordable sound cards like the AdLib and
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Restarting The Grid When The Grid Is Off The Grid
If you watch YouTube long enough, it seems like going “off the grid” is all the rage these days. But what if the thing that
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Rotary Dial Number Pad Is The Perfect Prank For Retro-Phone Enthusiast
We’re not sure about the rest of you, but to us, a keyboard without a number pad all the way over to the right just
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Miracle Of Science: Scotch Tape Improves Generator
We were always amused that one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the recent past — graphene — was started with pencil lead and Scotch
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Better Coding Through Sketching | Hackaday
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, engineering students would take a few semesters of drafting and there would usually be a week or
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Stack Trace From The 1950s Punches Again
This repair/tutorial video by the telephone Connections Museum of Seattle features an amazing piece of electro-mechanical technology from the 1950s — the 5XB trouble recorder. Museum volunteer
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Throwback: USB Hotplate Used 30 Whole Ports
Once upon a time, USB was still hip, cool, and easy to understand. You could get up to 500 mA out of a port, which
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