1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (33+ words) You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren't retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit CPU,......

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (40+ words) When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect 'yes', with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less than 10% of said $3,000 asking pric......

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (199+ words) hackaday.com Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on the move with ease Unfortunately manufacturers were scared…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (264+ words) Hackaday Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning Now that it’s the 21st century, we’ve gotten used to being…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (35+ words) The introduction of optical media in the form of CDs meant a revolution in the world of gaming consoles, escaping the restrictions of a few dozen MB of storage and instead offering a theoretically inf......

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (38+ words) [caption id="attachment_1145539" align="alignright" width="252"] Tiny capacitors in an SD card package. (Credit: Aeson Labs)[/caption] A nice thing about SD cards is that even in their non-micro form......