[Robert’s Retro] is one of those great YouTube channels that shows us the ins and outs of old and obscure computers. [Robert] likes going a step beyond the traditional teardown …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/ancient-pocket-computer-gets-a-serious-serial-upgrade/)
The Vectrex Home Computer You Never Had
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/the-vectrex-home-computer-you-never-had/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/the-vectrex-home-computer-you-never-had/
The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display — uniquely for a home system, it painted its graphics to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/the-vectrex-home-computer-you-never-had/)
LED Filaments Become Attractive Time Piece
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/led-filaments-become-attractive-time-piece/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/led-filaments-become-attractive-time-piece/
There are a million ways to use LEDs to make a clock. [sjm4306] chose to go a relatively conventional route, making something that approximates a traditional analog timepiece. However, he …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/led-filaments-become-attractive-time-piece/)
Brazilian Modders Upgrade NVidia Geforce GTX 970 to 8 GB of VRAM
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/brazilian-modders-upgrade-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-to-8-gb-of-vram/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/brazilian-modders-upgrade-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-to-8-gb-of-vram/
Although NVidia’s current disastrous RTX 50-series is getting all the attention right now, this wasn’t the first misstep by NVidia. Back in 2014 when NVidia released the GTX 970 users …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/brazilian-modders-upgrade-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-to-8-gb-of-vram/)
Physical Key Copying Starts With a Flipper Zero
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/physical-key-copying-starts-with-a-flipper-zero/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/physical-key-copying-starts-with-a-flipper-zero/
A moment’s inattention is all it takes to gather the information needed to make a physical copy of a key. It’s not necessarily an easy process, though, so if pen …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/physical-key-copying-starts-with-a-flipper-zero/)
Designing a Portable Mac Mini
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/designing-a-portable-mac-mini/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/designing-a-portable-mac-mini/
When Apple first launched the Macintosh, it created a new sort of “Lunchbox” form factor that was relatively portable and very, very cool. Reminiscent of that is this neat portable …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/designing-a-portable-mac-mini/)
Admit it. You Want This Go-Kart
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/admit-it-you-want-this-go-kart/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/admit-it-you-want-this-go-kart/
Many of us could have been lucky enough to have some form of pedal go-kart in our formative years, and among such lucky children there can have been few who …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/admit-it-you-want-this-go-kart/)
Build Customized Raspberry Pi OS Images With rpi-image-gen
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/build-customized-raspberry-pi-os-images-with-rpi-image-gen/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/build-customized-raspberry-pi-os-images-with-rpi-image-gen/
From https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raspberry_pi_os_recommended-software.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raspberry_pi_os_recommended-software.png?w=800">Recently Raspberry Pi publicly announced the release of their new rpi-image-gen tool, which is advertised as making custom Raspberry Pi OS (i.e. Debian for specific Broadcom SoCs) images in a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/build-customized-raspberry-pi-os-images-with-rpi-image-gen/)
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raspberry_pi_os_recommended-software.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/raspberry_pi_os_recommended-software.png?w=800">Recently Raspberry Pi publicly announced the release of their new rpi-image-gen tool, which is advertised as making custom Raspberry Pi OS (i.e. Debian for specific Broadcom SoCs) images in a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/build-customized-raspberry-pi-os-images-with-rpi-image-gen/)
Teardown of Casio Credit Card-Sized Radio
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/teardown-of-casio-credit-card-sized-radio/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/teardown-of-casio-credit-card-sized-radio/
These days we don’t get too fussed about miniaturized electronics, not when you can put an entire processor and analog circuitry on a chip the size of a grain of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/teardown-of-casio-credit-card-sized-radio/)