One of the nicest things about the Hackaday community, and the open-source hardware community at large, is the incredible generosity of one hacker to another. But it’s not purely altruism …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/making-for-others/)
That Weird 7-Pin S-Video Port on Old Laptops
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/that-weird-7-pin-s-video-port-on-old-laptops/
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Even though laptops from around the early 2000s came with just about every conceivable port on them, they still would often feature a somewhat unusual combined video output port. While …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/that-weird-7-pin-s-video-port-on-old-laptops/)
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: I Would Do Anything For Serial Data
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-i-would-do-anything-for-serial-data/
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-i-would-do-anything-for-serial-data/
These days we take high-speed networking for granted, but it can be difficult to get vintage computers talking to modern machines. To help solve this problem [jaime] came up with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-i-would-do-anything-for-serial-data/)