Hackaday Prize 2022: Reuse Those DIP Chips To Make A 1980s-Style Single-Board Computer

With the Great Chip Shortage still delaying deliveries of new components, now might be a good time to look around your lab and inspect those piles of chips that you thought “might come in han…

A Slim 7400 Logic VGA Board For All Your Retro Needs

Over the years we’ve seen a number of hackers generate VGA with 74xx logic chips, but they’ve generally not been the most practical of builds. Often put together as part of a competitio…

Homebrew 16 Bit Computer Reinvents All The Wheels

Building your own computer has many possible paths. One can fabricate their own Z80 or Motorola 6502 computers and then run a period correct OS. Or a person could start from scratch as [James Stane…

SPAM-1 Is A Well-Documented Discrete CPU With An Impressive Software Library

Here at Hackaday we love projects that are so well-documented that you can spend days reading up on what the designer has achieved. [John Lonergan] didn’t disappoint when he designed the SPAM…