Raspberry Pi News
- hackaday.com Overcomplicating The Magnetic Compass For A Reason
Some inventions are so simple that it’s hard to improve them. The magnetic compass is a great example — a magnetized needle, a bit of cork, and a bowl of water are all you need to start…
- • 94%hackaday.com Redbox Is Dead, But The Machines Are Kind Of Hanging On
Redbox was a service for renting DVDs from automated kiosks. The business was going well until it wasn’t anymore, and then the company went bankrupt in July this year. And yet… the mach…
- • 100%hackaday.com Building A ZX Spectrum Using Only New Parts
Ah, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. A popular computer in Britain and beyond, but now rather thin on the ground. If you can’t find one, fear not, for now—you can apparently build a new one with new…
- hackaday.com What Would It Take To Recreate Bell Labs?
It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable technologies and products. This is also effectively the story of Bel…
- pimylifeup.com Setting up a Desktop Interface on Raspberry Pi OS Lite
Quick and easy installation steps
- hackaday.com Tiny LoRa GPS Node Relies On ESP32
Sometimes you need to create a satellite navigation tracking device that communicates via a low-power mesh network. [Powerfeatherdev] was in just that situation, and they whipped up a particularly …
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- • 100%hackaday.com Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Version 2
I’ve talked a fair bit about USB-C before, explaining how it all works, from many different angles. That said, USB-C is just the physical connector standard, plus the PD part that takes care …
- pimylifeup.com Installing UV on a Linux system
UV is a speedy alternative to the Python Package Manager Pip.
- pimylifeup.com Self-hosting Retrom on your Raspberry Pi
A self-hosted video game library for your retro games
- • 50%hackaday.com Laser Painting Explained
If you get an inexpensive diode laser cutter, you might have been disappointed to find it won’t work well with transparent acrylic. The material just passes most of the light at that waveleng…
- hackaday.com Access The Information Superhighway With A Mac Plus
For some time now, Apple has developed a reputation for manufacturing computers and phones that are not particularly repairable or upgradable. While this reputation is somewhat deserved, especially…
- hackaday.com Mining And Refining: Mine Dewatering
From space, the most striking feature of our Pale Blue Dot is exactly what makes it blue: all that water. About three-quarters of the globe is covered with liquid water, and our atmosphere is a thi…
- • 100%hackaday.com The FNIRSI HRM-10 Internal Resistance Meter
Occasionally, we find fun new electronic instruments in the wild and can’t resist sharing them with our readers. The item in question is the FNIRSI HRM-10 Internal resistance meter, which we …
- hackaday.com Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Folding Butterfly Keyboard
Want to give prospective employers a business card that doesn’t immediately get tossed? Of course you do. If you’re one of us, the answer is obvious: make it some kind of a PCB. But as …
- hackaday.com Read All About It: The 2024 Supercon Site Is Live
With the 2024 Hackaday Supercon just a couple weeks away, we’re pleased to announce that the official site for the three-day event is now live! On the brand-new Supercon page, you can find a …
- • 100%hackaday.com Solve: An ESP32-Based Equation Solving Calculator
We’re suckers for good-looking old-school calculators, so this interesting numerical equation-solving calculator by [Peter Balch] caught our attention. Based around the ESP32-WROOM-32 module …
- hackaday.com Linus Live-Codes Music On The Commodore 64
In this tremendously educational video, [Linus Akesson] takes us through how he develops a synthesizer and a sequencer and editor for it on the Commodore 64, all in BASIC. While this sounds easy, […
