Create a Tiny Telephone Exchange with an Analog Telephone Adapter
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/create-a-tiny-telephone-exchange-with-an-analog-telephone-adapter/
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/create-a-tiny-telephone-exchange-with-an-analog-telephone-adapter/
An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a digital voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. In addition to this, you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/create-a-tiny-telephone-exchange-with-an-analog-telephone-adapter/)
One Hundred Years Of Telly
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/one-hundred-years-of-telly/
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/one-hundred-years-of-telly/
Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that it’s a hundred years since the first public …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/one-hundred-years-of-telly/)
The History of Tandem Computers
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/the-history-of-tandem-computers/
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/the-history-of-tandem-computers/
If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/26/the-history-of-tandem-computers/)
Why Diffraction Gratings Create Fourier Transforms
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/why-diffraction-gratings-create-fourier-transforms/
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/why-diffraction-gratings-create-fourier-transforms/
When last we saw [xoreaxeax], he had built a lens-less optical microscope that deduced the structure of a sample by recording the diffraction patterns formed by shining a laser beam …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/why-diffraction-gratings-create-fourier-transforms/)
Pi Compute Module Powers Fully Open Smartphone
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/pi-compute-module-powers-fully-open-smartphone/
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/pi-compute-module-powers-fully-open-smartphone/
With the powerful off-the-shelf hardware available to us common hardware hobbyist folk, how hard can it be to make a smartphone from scratch? Hence [V Electronics]’s Spirit smartphone project, with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/pi-compute-module-powers-fully-open-smartphone/)
Zombie Netscape Won’t Die
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/zombie-netscape-wont-die/
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/zombie-netscape-wont-die/
The very concept of the web browser began with a humble piece of software called NCSA Mosaic, all the way back in 1993. It was soon eclipsed by Netscape Navigator, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/zombie-netscape-wont-die/)
In 1993, DOOM was a great game to play if you had a 486 with a VGA monitor and nothing to do all weekend. In 2026, you can play it on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/running-doom-on-earbuds/)