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Nothing lasts forever, but you’d think the leaded-glass face of a CRT would not be a place you’re likely to see Father Time causing failures. Alas, the particle accelerators we …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/resin-injection-crt-cataract-surgery-on-macintosh-monitor/)
We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries are, and everything that’s afforded us. I’m trying to think …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/the-unreasonable-power-density-of-lithium-ion/)
For better or worse, there are a few instruments that have been pigeonholed into specific genres of popular music. For example, banjos are often heard in bluegrass or folk, harmonicas …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/analog-siren-for-psychedelic-soundscapes/)
We’re used to electronic parts of the same type staying predictably the same, sometimes over many years. An early Z80 from the mid 1970s can be exchanged with one from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/esp32-when-is-a-p4-a-p4-but-not-the-p4-you-thought-it-was/)
The best part about retro computing is the idea that you’ll save some poor system from being scrapped and revive it to a working state, at which point you can …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/reviving-a-cursed-sun-sparcstation-ipx/)
Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was effectively the only display available. It’s an analog display for an analog …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/analog-video-from-an-8-bit-microcontroller/)