DIY Ram-Tester checks vintage 16- and 20-pin DRAMs used in TI-99/4A, C64, Amiga, Atari and others. Fast tests, OLED display, ...

Simulators overcome hardware limits, helping you prototype faster and smarter with open-source tools. Explore three powerful ...

The news that President Donald Trump is moving to gut protections for wetlands, and that the Hudson River might be among his ...

Validating design kits requires investment and collaboration across the supply chain, but it pays off in fewer layout respins and lower risk.

According to the DfS insight, an instant analysis would indicate that this straightforward change could reduce PCB costs by 15 to 20% without impacting the prototype’s performance. This adjustment not ...

This capability was one of the first steps that transformed IPC-2581 from a simple output format into a full design data ...

Raspberry Pi has long been a proving ground for creative hacks that stretch low-cost hardware far beyond its original brief, and graphics performance is one of the most contested frontiers. The idea ...

People enjoy retrocomputing for a wide variety of reasons – sometimes it’s about having a computer you could fully learn, or ...

PSL 2026 hosts a landmark event at Lord’s with top cricketing figures, celebrating the league’s global rise and announcing ...

A new recyclable printed circuit board (PCB) could help slow the global e-waste crisis. Josiah Hester, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, is part of a multi-institutional ...

I was looking over the week’s posts on Hackaday – it’s part of my job after all – and this gem caught my eye: a post about how to make your own RP2040 development board from scratch. And I’ll admit ...

Alex Taradov has designed a low-cost, open-source hardware USB sniffer compatible with the popular Wireshark packet capture utility, and also controllable ...