There was a time when a coffee vending machine was a relatively straightforward affair, with a basic microcontroller doing not much more than the mechanical sequencer it replaced. A modern …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/supercon-2023-reverse-engineering-commercial-coffee-machines/)

The World’s First DIY Minicomputer Was Almost Australian
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/the-worlds-first-diy-minicomputer-was-almost-australian/

The EDUC-8, a DIY minicomputer design that came out in “Electronics Australia” magazine, was almost the world’s first in August 1974. And it would have been tied for the world’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/the-worlds-first-diy-minicomputer-was-almost-australian/)

Tight Handheld CRT Asteroids Game Curses in Tuscan
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/tight-handheld-crt-asteroids-game-curses-in-tuscan/

How many Arduini does it take to make a tiny CRT Asteroids game? [Marco Vallegi] of MVV Blog’s answer: two. One for the game mechanics and one for the sound …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/tight-handheld-crt-asteroids-game-curses-in-tuscan/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 787: VDO Ninja — It’s a Little Bit Hacky
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/floss-weekly-episode-787-vdo-ninja-its-a-little-bit-hacky/

This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman chat with Steve Seguin about VDO.Ninja and Social Stream Ninja, tools for doing live WebRTC video calls, recording audio and video, wrangling comments …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/floss-weekly-episode-787-vdo-ninja-its-a-little-bit-hacky/)

Startup Claims it Can Boost CPU Performance by 2-100X
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/startup-claims-it-can-boost-cpu-performance-by-2-100x/

Although Moore’s Law has slowed at bit as chip makers reach the physical limits of transistor size, researchers are having to look to other things other than cramming more transistors …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/startup-claims-it-can-boost-cpu-performance-by-2-100x/)

Restoring a Vintage CGA Card with Homebrew HASL
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/restoring-a-vintage-cga-card-with-homebrew-hasl/

Right off the bat, we’ll stipulate that what [Adrian] is doing in the video below isn’t actual hot air solder leveling. But we thought the results of his card-edge connector …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/restoring-a-vintage-cga-card-with-homebrew-hasl/)

Raspberry Pi Saves Printer from Junk Pile
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/13/raspberry-pi-saves-printer-from-junk-pile/

Around here, printers have a life expectancy of about two years if we are lucky. But [techtipsy] has a family member who has milked a long life from an old …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/13/raspberry-pi-saves-printer-from-junk-pile/)