MicroGPT Lets You Peek with Your Browser
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/microgpt-lets-you-peek-with-your-browser/
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/microgpt-lets-you-peek-with-your-browser/
Regardless of what you think of GPT and the associated AI hype, you have to admit that it is probably here to stay, at least in some form. But how, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/microgpt-lets-you-peek-with-your-browser/)
Love Complex Automata? Don’t Miss The Archer
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/love-complex-automata-dont-miss-the-archer/
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/love-complex-automata-dont-miss-the-archer/
[Oliver Pett] loves creating automata; pieces of art whose physicality and motion come together to deliver something unique. [Oliver] also has a mission, and that mission is to complete the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/love-complex-automata-dont-miss-the-archer/)
In Praise of the Proof of Concept
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/in-praise-of-the-proof-of-concept/
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/in-praise-of-the-proof-of-concept/
Your project doesn’t necessarily have to be a refined masterpiece to have an impact on the global hacker hivemind. Case in point: this great demo of using a 64-point time-of-flight …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/in-praise-of-the-proof-of-concept/)
Retrotechtacular: Bleeding-Edge Memory Devices of 1959
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/retrotechtacular-bleeding-edge-memory-devices-of-1959/
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/retrotechtacular-bleeding-edge-memory-devices-of-1959/
Although digital computers are – much like their human computer counterparts – about performing calculations, another crucial element is that of memory. After all, you need to fetch values from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/retrotechtacular-bleeding-edge-memory-devices-of-1959/)
Miranda’s Unlikely Ocean Has Us Asking If There’s Life Clinging On Around Uranus
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/mirandas-unlikely-ocean-has-us-asking-if-theres-life-clinging-on-around-uranus/
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/mirandas-unlikely-ocean-has-us-asking-if-theres-life-clinging-on-around-uranus/
If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in our own solar system. Mars has been an obvious choice …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/mirandas-unlikely-ocean-has-us-asking-if-theres-life-clinging-on-around-uranus/)
How the Intel 8087 FPU Knows Which Instructions to Execute
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/how-the-intel-8087-fpu-knows-which-instructions-to-execute/
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/how-the-intel-8087-fpu-knows-which-instructions-to-execute/
An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/how-the-intel-8087-fpu-knows-which-instructions-to-execute/)
[Hans Rosenberg] has a new video talking about a nasty side effect of using resistors: noise. If you watch the video below, you’ll learn that there are two sources of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/quieting-noisy-resistors/)