Inside Vacuum Fluorescent Displays
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VFDs — vacuum fluorescent displays — have a distinctive look, and [Anthony Francis-Jones] is generally fascinated with retro displays. So, it makes sense that he’d build a VFD project as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/29/inside-vacuum-fluorescent-displays/)

Lessons Learned, When Restoring An Amiga 1000
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In the mid 1980s, there was a rash of 16-bit computers entering the market. One of them stood head and shoulders above the rest: Commodore’s Amiga 1000. It had everything …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/lessons-learned-when-restoring-an-amiga-1000/)

RGB LED Display Simply Solves The Ping-Pong Ball Problem
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A few years ago [Brian McCafferty] created a nice big RGB LED panel in a poster frame that aimed to be easy to move, program, and display. We’d like to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/rgb-led-display-simply-solves-the-ping-pong-ball-problem/)

Forgotten Internet: Giving (or Getting) the Finger
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Hey, you know that guy in accounting, Marco? If you want to find out more about him, you’d probably go surf LinkedIn or maybe a social media site. Inside a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/forgotten-internet-giving-or-getting-the-finger/)

A 1962 Test Gear Teardown
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Although it sounds like some Star Trek McGuffin, a Q-Meter is a piece of test gear that measures the Q factor of a tuned circuit. [Thomas] got a Boonton meter …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/a-1962-test-gear-teardown/)

Digital Paint Mixing Has Been Greatly Improved With 1930s Math
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/digital-paint-mixing-has-been-greatly-improved-with-1930s-math/

You might not have noticed if you’re not a digital artist, but most painting and image apps still get color mixing wrong. As we all learned in kindergarten, blue paint …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/digital-paint-mixing-has-been-greatly-improved-with-1930s-math/)

Retrotechtacular: The Tyranny of Large Numbers
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Although much diminished now, the public switched telephone network was one of the largest machines ever constructed. To make good on its promise of instant communication across town or around …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/retrotechtacular-the-tyranny-of-large-numbers/)