Restoring a Commodore PET 3032 in Rough Condition
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/restoring-a-commodore-pet-3032-in-rough-condition/

The Commodore CBM 3032 is a successor to the original Commodore PET 2001, yet due a conflicting trademark issue with Philips these first European PETs were called ‘CBM’ instead. Hence …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/restoring-a-commodore-pet-3032-in-rough-condition/)

Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/pulse-jet-ski-chases-the-winter-blues-away/

A long winter has a way of making a lot of us northerners a little bit squirrly. In [Build N Pulsejets]’s case, squirly enough to mount a home-made propane-powered pulse-jet …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/pulse-jet-ski-chases-the-winter-blues-away/)

How Usable is Windows 98 in 2026?
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/how-usable-is-windows-98-in-2026/

With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people than ever are pining …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/how-usable-is-windows-98-in-2026/)

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/hackaday-links-march-8-2026/

As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to the punch by dropping the 1 GHz Athlon …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/hackaday-links-march-8-2026/)

Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/experiment-with-the-pi-camera-the-modular-way/

The various Raspberry Pi camera modules have become the default digital camera hacker’s tool, and have appeared in a huge number of designs over the past decade. They’re versatile and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/experiment-with-the-pi-camera-the-modular-way/)

Building an Analogue Computer to Simulate Neurons
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/building-an-analogue-computer-to-simulate-neurons/

The rapidly-improving speed and versatility of digital computers has mostly driven analogue computers out of use in modern systems, as has the relative difficulty of programming an analogue computer. There …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/building-an-analogue-computer-to-simulate-neurons/)