On 31 March of this year we had to bid farewell to Charlotte Elizabeth “Betty” Webb (née Vine-Stevens) at the age of 101. She was one of the cryptanalysts who …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/remembering-betty-webb-bletchley-park-pentagon-code-breaker/)

MIT Wants You to Secure Your Hardware Designs
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/mit-wants-you-to-secure-your-hardware-designs/

When you think of attacking or defending computer systems, you probably think of software viruses and the corresponding anti-virus software. But MIT’s 6.5950 class teaches secure hardware design — how …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/mit-wants-you-to-secure-your-hardware-designs/)

Ditto That
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/ditto-that/

In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/ditto-that/)

Australia’s Silliac Computer
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/australias-silliac-computer/

When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work done in the UK and the US. But Australia had an early computer scene, too, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/australias-silliac-computer/)

Teardown of a Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/teardown-of-a-scam-ultrasonic-cleaner/

Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great, but not every device that’s marketed as an ultrasonic cleaner is necessarily such a device. In a recent video on the Cheap & Cheerful …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/teardown-of-a-scam-ultrasonic-cleaner/)

The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-weird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/

We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and it’s likely that many of us will have sat in front of machines running x86, ARM, or even …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-weird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/)

A Proper OS For The Sega Genesis/Megadrive
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-proper-os-for-the-sega-genesis-megadrive/

The console wars of the early 1990s had several players, but the battle that mattered was between Nintendo’s SNES and Sega’s Genesis, or Megadrive if you are European. They are …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-proper-os-for-the-sega-genesis-megadrive/)

Playstacean Evolves The PSOne Into The Crab It Was Always Meant to Be
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/playstacean-evolves-the-psone-into-the-crab-it-was-always-meant-to-be/

Odd hardware designs crop up in art and renders far more frequently than in the flesh, but console modder [GingerOfOz] felt the need to bring [Anh Dang]’s image of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/playstacean-evolves-the-psone-into-the-crab-it-was-always-meant-to-be/)

A Portable Electronics Workstation
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/a-portable-electronics-workstation/

You don’t see them as often as you used to, but it used to be common to see “electronics trainers” which were usually a collection of components and simple equipment …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/04/a-portable-electronics-workstation/)