It’s Hard to Make a (Good) Oscillator
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/its-hard-to-make-a-good-oscillator/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/its-hard-to-make-a-good-oscillator/
There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts with the old joke that if you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/its-hard-to-make-a-good-oscillator/)
Baby’s First Synth was Daddy’s First Project
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/babys-first-synth-was-daddys-first-project/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/babys-first-synth-was-daddys-first-project/
We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s third birthday in spite of having no prior hardware knowledge. It …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/babys-first-synth-was-daddys-first-project/)
Why Do We Love Weird Old Tech?
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/why-do-we-love-weird-old-tech/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/why-do-we-love-weird-old-tech/
One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ubiquitous LCD and the vanishing CRT, the plasma TV had its …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/why-do-we-love-weird-old-tech/)
RavynOS: Open Source MacOS with Same BSD Pedigree
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/ravynos-open-source-macos-with-same-bsd-pedigree/
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/ravynos-open-source-macos-with-same-bsd-pedigree/
That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/ravynos-open-source-macos-with-same-bsd-pedigree/)