Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was all we had. On the other hand, there …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/09/was-action-the-best-8-bit-language/)

The Magic of the Hall Effect Sensor
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/09/the-magic-of-the-hall-effect-sensor/

Recently, [Solder Hub] put together a brief video that demonstrates the basics of a Hall Effect sensor — in this case, one salvaged from an old CPU fan. Two LEDs, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/09/the-magic-of-the-hall-effect-sensor/)

A Look at Not an Android Emulator
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/a-look-at-not-an-android-emulator/

Recently, Linux has been rising in desktop popularity in no small part to the work on WINE and Proton. But for some, the year of the Linux desktop is not …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/a-look-at-not-an-android-emulator/)

Rackintosh Plus Is the Form Factor Nobody Has Been Waiting For
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/rackintosh-plus-is-the-form-factor-nobody-has-been-waiting-for/

For all its friendly countenance and award-winning industrial design, there’s one thing the venerable Macintosh Plus can’t do: fit into a 1U rack space. OK, if we’re being honest with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/rackintosh-plus-is-the-form-factor-nobody-has-been-waiting-for/)

Bare Metal STM32: the Various Real Time Clock Flavors
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/bare-metal-stm32-the-various-real-time-clock-flavors/

Keeping track of time is essential, even for microcontrollers, which is why a real-time clock (RTC) peripheral is a common feature in MCUs. In the case of the STM32 family …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/bare-metal-stm32-the-various-real-time-clock-flavors/)

Everything in a Linux Terminal
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/everything-in-a-linux-terminal/

Here at Hackaday Central, we fancy that we know a little something about Linux. But if you’d tasked us to run any GUI program inside a Linux terminal, we’d have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/everything-in-a-linux-terminal/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 846: Mastering Embedded Linux Programming
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/floss-weekly-episode-846-mastering-embedded-linux-programming/

This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Frank Vasquez and Chris Simmonds about Embedded Linux, and the 4th edition of the Mastering Embedded Linux Programming book. How has this space …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/floss-weekly-episode-846-mastering-embedded-linux-programming/)

The 555 as You’ve Never Seen It: In Textile!
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/the-555-as-youve-never-seen-it-in-textile/