Musician Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies are like a Tarot card deck full of whimsical ideas meant to break up a creative-block situation, particularly in the recording studio. They’re loads of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/honor-thy-error/)

Windows 98 on a 2020 ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 Laptop
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/windows-98-on-a-2020-thinkpad-p14s-gen-1-laptop/

The lovely thing about the x86 architecture is its decades of backwards compatibility, which makes it possible to run 1990s operating systems on modern-day hardware, with relatively few obstacles in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/windows-98-on-a-2020-thinkpad-p14s-gen-1-laptop/)

Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/vintage-canadian-video-hardware-becomes-homebrew-computer/

Are you in the mood for a retrocomputing deep dive into the Scriptovision Super Micro Script? It was a Canadian-made vintage video titler from the 80s, and [Cameron Kaiser] has …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/vintage-canadian-video-hardware-becomes-homebrew-computer/)

Reverse Engineering a Dash Robot with Ghidra
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/reverse-engineering-a-dash-robot-with-ghidra/

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/reverse-engineering-a-dash-robot-with-ghidra/)

Real-Time 3D Room Mapping with ESP32, VL53L5CX Sensor and IMU
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/real-time-3d-room-mapping-with-esp32-vl53l5cx-sensor-and-imu/

ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters. In a recent video,[Henrique Ferrolho] demonstrated that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/real-time-3d-room-mapping-with-esp32-vl53l5cx-sensor-and-imu/)

The WalMart Atomic Clock
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/the-walmart-atomic-clock/

In the realm of first-world problems, your cheap wall clock doesn’t keep time, so you have to keep setting it. The answer? Of course, you connect it to NTP and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/the-walmart-atomic-clock/)

GameCube Dock for Switch, revisited.
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/15/gamecube-dock-for-switch-revisited/

While modern game consoles are certainly excellent, there is still something magical about the consoles of yore. So why not bring the magical nostalgia of a GameCube controller to the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/02/15/gamecube-dock-for-switch-revisited/)