Designing a Compact RGB 14-Segment Display
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/designing-a-compact-rgb-14-segment-display/

Sometimes you’re looking for a component for a project that you know should exist, but you just cannot find it. Something like a 14-segment LED display, but not just one …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/designing-a-compact-rgb-14-segment-display/)

Forget Waldo. Where’s Luna 9?
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/forget-waldo-wheres-luna-9/

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. In 1966, the main spacecraft ejected a 99-kg lander module that used a landing bag to survive impact. The …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/forget-waldo-wheres-luna-9/)

PROFS: The Office Suite of the 1980s
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/profs-the-office-suite-of-the-1980s/

Today, we take office software suites for granted. But in the 1970s, you were lucky to have a typewriter and access to a photocopier. But in the early 1980s, IBM …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/profs-the-office-suite-of-the-1980s/)

Vintage Film Editor Becomes HDMI Monitor
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/vintage-film-editor-becomes-hdmi-monitor/

With the convenience of digital cameras and editing software, shooting video today is so easy. But fifty years ago it wasn’t electronics that stored the picture but film, and for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/vintage-film-editor-becomes-hdmi-monitor/)