Hackaday (unofficial) November 15, 2023 10:00pm Backyard UFO Is Out of This World #holidayhacks #microcontrollers #frigginlasers #rgbleds #smoke #teensy41 #ufo #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Backyard UFO Is Out Of This World Halloween may be over for another year, but UFOs in your yard are cool year-round. This one might take the cake. [frydom.john]’s excellent UFO is fully programmable and contains about 2000 ad…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 31, 2023 9:00am Teensy Stands in for the Motorola 68k #machacks #microcontrollers #retrocomputing #68000 #68k #armcortextm7 #bus #cycleaccurate #emulator #mac512k #microcontroller #motorola #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Teensy Stands In For The Motorola 68k While it might not seem like it today, there was a time in the not-too-distant past where Motorola was the processor manufacturer. They made chips for everything, but the most popular was arguably …
Hackaday (unofficial) August 4, 2023 6:00am Apple III Slows Down to Smell the Roses #retrocomputing #6502 #apple #appleiii #arduino #clockspeed #microcontroller #restoration #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Apple III Slows Down To Smell The Roses The most collectible items in the realm of vintage computers often weren’t the most popular of their era. Quite the opposite, in fact. Generally the more desireable systems were market failur…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 20, 2023 7:00pm Game Boy-Style Camera For Playdate #handheldshacks #1bit #camera #gameboycamera #grayscale #monochrome #ov7670 #playdate #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Game Boy-Style Camera For Playdate The Game Boy Camera, while perhaps not the most technologically advanced piece of equipment, left a huge mark on video game and electronics culture. The grayscale photographs are still highly prize…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 7, 2023 4:00pm Transform an Original Xbox Controller to a 360 Controller #xboxhacks #360 #controller #interface #modification #original #teensy41 #upgrade #usb #xbox #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Transform An Original Xbox Controller To A 360 Controller If you’re looking for a controller for your computer or mobile device, you could certainly do worse than one of the latest iterations of the Xbox pad. They might not be perfect, but they̵…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 3, 2023 6:00am IBM PC Runs BASIC With Motorola 68000 CPU Upgrade #classichacks #retrocomputing #8088 #ibmpc #motorola68000 #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 IBM PC Runs BASIC With Motorola 68000 CPU Upgrade Although ARM CPUs have been making headway in several areas of computing over the last decade or so, the vast majority of desktop, laptop and server CPUs are still based on the x86 architecture. Ho…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 16, 2023 7:00am Breadboarding a Game Boy From Scratch #nintendogameboyhacks #nintendohacks #gameboy #nintendo #nintendogameboy #teensy #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Breadboarding A Game Boy From Scratch The original Nintendo Game Boy is a stout piece of hardware in a solid plastic enclosure. [Raphael Stäbler] recreated the popular handheld on a breadboard instead, in a fully-functional way, to boo…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 29, 2022 9:00pm Teensy Becomes Tiny Handheld Computer, Plays Emulators #mischacks #handheld #handheldcomputer #teensy #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Teensy Becomes Tiny Handheld Computer, Plays Emulators Science fiction predicted that we would one day all carry around tiny computers of great power. While smartphones are great, those predictions were more based on cuter systems that more closely app…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 26, 2022 9:00pm Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: Chorded Keyset Recreates Engelbart’s Vision #contests #peripheralshacks #chordedkeyboard #douglasengelbart #motherofalltechdemos #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Odd Inputs And Peculiar Peripherals: Chorded Keyset Recreates Engelbart’s Vision Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 “Mother of all Demos” introduced the world to a whole range of technologies we take for granted today, the most prominent being his great invention, the c…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 14, 2022 4:00pm LMN-3: Putting The ‘OP’ In Open Source Synthesizers #digitalaudiohacks #raspberrypi #daw #hyperpixel #midi #op1 #raspberrypi4 #sequencer #synthesizer #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 LMN-3: Putting The ‘OP’ In Open Source Synthesizers Some projects you come across simply leave you in awe when you look at the thought and the resulting amount of work that went into it, not only for the actual implementation, but everything around …
Hackaday (unofficial) March 16, 2022 4:00pm Eight RS232 Ports, One Ethernet Port #networkhacks #ethernet #serial #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Eight RS232 Ports, One Ethernet Port When it comes to impromptu enclosures, [Paul Wallace] is a man after our own hearts, for his serial-to-Ethernet converters allowing him to control older test equipment were housed in takeaway curry…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 2, 2022 7:00pm Teensy 4 Pushed to the Limit with 1 GHz Overclock #microcontrollers #heatsink #laptopcooling #overclock #teensy4 #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Teensy 4 Pushed To The Limit With 1 GHz Overclock Do you need a microcontroller that runs at 1 GHz? No, probably not. But that didn’t stop [Visual Micro] from trying, and the results are pretty interesting. Not only did the plucky little chi…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 4, 2021 6:00am Vintage Computers With a Real Turbo #retrocomputing #appleii #clock #cpu #emulator #fpga #speed #teensy41 #turbo #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Vintage Computers With A Real Turbo In prior centuries, it was common practice to tie the operation of a program to a computer’s clock speed. As computers got faster and faster, the programs tied to that slower clock speed some…