When home computers first appeared, disk drives were an expensive rarity. Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards or paper tape, but most people did have consumer-grade audio …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/cassette-data-storage-from-the-1970s/)

Attack Of The Beepy Clones
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/attack-of-the-beepy-clones/

In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a series of open-source projects turned into Beepy, a cool Linux PDA with a lively community. To me, it’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/attack-of-the-beepy-clones/)

Taking A One Handed Keyboard To The Next Level
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/taking-a-one-handed-keyboard-to-the-next-level/

When a wrist mounted keyboard floated past in the Hackaday feed, a mental image surfaced, perhaps something like a Blackberry keyboard mounted on a wrist cuff, maybe with some kind …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/taking-a-one-handed-keyboard-to-the-next-level/)

Adapting an Old Rotary Dial for Digital Applications
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/adapting-an-old-rotary-dial-for-digital-applications/

Today in old school nostalgia our tipster [Clint Jay] wrote in to let us know about this rotary dial. If you’re a young whippersnapper you might never have seen a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/adapting-an-old-rotary-dial-for-digital-applications/)

How a DIY Chicken Coop Door Opener Went From Simple to Complex
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/how-a-diy-chicken-coop-door-opener-went-from-simple-to-complex/

How hard could it be to make a chicken coop door that can be configured to open and close automatically using a straightforward interface? That’s the question that [Jeff Sandberg] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/how-a-diy-chicken-coop-door-opener-went-from-simple-to-complex/)

Open a Portal to an NES Emulator
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/open-a-portal-to-an-nes-emulator/

The Portal games were revolutionary not only for their puzzle-based, narrative-driven gameplay, but also for their unique physics engine, which let players open portals anywhere and conserve momentum and direction …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/open-a-portal-to-an-nes-emulator/)

Watkin’s Tower: London’s Failed Eiffel Tower
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/watkins-tower-londons-failed-eiffel-tower/

The city of London is no stranger to tall constructions today, but long before the first skyscrapers would loom above its streets, Watkin’s Tower was supposed to be the tallest …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/watkins-tower-londons-failed-eiffel-tower/)

A Concentric Clock with Multiple Modes
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/14/a-concentric-clock-with-multiple-modes/