If you’re living your life right, you probably know what as MOSFET is. But do you know the MESFET? They are like the faster, uninsulated, Schottky version of a MOSFET, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/how-shrinking-feature-size-made-modern-wireless-work/)

Inside an Edison Phonograph
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/inside-an-edison-phonograph/

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/inside-an-edison-phonograph/)

Ben Eater vs. Microsoft BASIC
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/ben-eater-vs-microsoft-basic/

[Ben Eater]’s breadboard 6502 computer is no stranger to these parts, so it was a bit of a surprise that when [Mark] wrote in asking us if we’d covered [Ben]’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/05/ben-eater-vs-microsoft-basic/)

A Low F Number Lens, From Scratch
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/a-low-f-number-lens-from-scratch/

The F-number of a photographic lens is a measure of its light-gathering ability, and is expressed as its aperture diameter divided by its focal length. Lenses with low F-numbers are …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/a-low-f-number-lens-from-scratch/)

Celebrating 30 Years of Windows 95 at VCF
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/celebrating-30-years-of-windows-95/

Man and woman stand in front of a table of windows 95 computers and software
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cz.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cz.jpg?w=800">It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at VCF East 2025.  They had no fewer than nine computers — …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/celebrating-30-years-of-windows-95/)

Emulating iPhone on QEMU
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/emulating-iphone-on-qemu/

[Georges Gagnerot] has been trying to emulate iOS and run iPhone software in a virtual environment. There were a few choices, and qemu-t8030 had a number of interesting features that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/emulating-iphone-on-qemu/)

An Amstrad PCW Receives A Bit Of Love
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/an-amstrad-pcw-receives-a-bit-of-love/

If Clive Sinclair’s genius in consumer electronics was in using ingenious hacks to make cheaper parts do greater things, then his Amstrad competitor Alan Sugar’s was in selling decade-old technology …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/an-amstrad-pcw-receives-a-bit-of-love/)