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Photo-printing kiosks are about as common as payphones these days. However, there was a time when they were everywhere. The idea was that if you didn’t have a good printer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/15/repairing-a-kodak-picture-maker-kiosk/)
When your homebrew Yagi antenna only sort-of works, or when your WiFi cantenna seems moody on rainy days, we can assure you: it is not only you. You can stop …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/a-hackers-approach-to-all-things-antenna/)
MSX computers were not very common in the United States, and we didn’t know what we were missing when they were popular. [Re:Enthused] shows us what would have been a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/a-look-at-the-panasonic-fs-a1fm/)
Everyone loves wireless power these days, almost vindicating [Tesla’s] push for wireless power. One reason why transmitting electricity this way is a terrible idea is the massive losses involved once …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/transmitting-wireless-power-over-longer-distances/)
Current measurements are not as handy as voltage measurements. You typically need to either measure the voltage across something and do some math or break the circuit so a known …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/inside-a-budget-current-probe/)
After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/blue-ghost-watches-lunar-eclipse-from-the-lunar-surface/)
“The brickings will continue until the printer sales improve!” This whole printer-bricking thing seems to be getting out of hand with the news this week that a firmware update caused …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/hackaday-links-march-16-2025/)
If you think of old recording technology, you probably think of magnetic tape, either in some kind of cassette or, maybe, on reels. But there’s an even older technology that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/wire-recording-speaks-again/)
The Amiga has a lot of fans, and rightly so. The machine broke a lot of ground. However, according to [Dave Farquhar], one of the most popular models today — …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/the-amiga-no-one-wanted/)