The Apple II was made in great numbers, as was the Commodore 64. But the Mimic Spartan? It was a weird Apple II clone that you needed a Commodore 64 to use. [ARC Javmaster] has found one of these ...

Keeping retrocomputers going can be tricky enough, but when you’re talking retro laptops, the battery packs add an extra ...

Fermentation is a culinary art where tiny organisms transform simple ingredients into complex flavors — but they’re finicky ...

Before the era of large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductor circuits, discrete logic circuits using the common ...

We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics at ...

Guitar Hero was all the rage for a few years, before the entire world apparently got sick of it overnight. Some diehards still remember the charms of rhythm games, though. Among them you might ...

When Beyblades first came out a couple of decades ago, they quickly became a fad across Japan and several Western countries. There was a whole ecosystem of parts that you could buy and use to ...

Sometimes, brilliant perspectives need a bit of an introduction first, and this is clearly one. This video essay by [Cleggy] delivers what it promises: an ode to the aesthetic of light. But he ...

It should come as no surprise that the hacker community has embraced the Meshtastic project. It’s got a little bit of ...

Do you use a spell checker? We’ll guess you do. Would you use a button that just said “correct all spelling errors in ...

In the formative experiences of most Hackaday readers there will almost certainly be a number of common threads, for example ...

After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it ...