Making microcontrollers produce video has long been a staple of hardware hacking, but as the resolution goes up, it becomes a struggle for less capable silicon. To get higher resolution …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/30/dual-port-ram-for-a-simple-vga-card/)

Symmetrical Gear Spins One-Way, Harvesting Surrounding Chaos
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/30/symmetrical-gear-spins-one-way-harvesting-surrounding-chaos/

Here’s a novel ratchet mechanism developed by researchers that demonstrates how a single object — in this case a gear shaped like a six-pointed star — can rectify the disordered …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/30/symmetrical-gear-spins-one-way-harvesting-surrounding-chaos/)

Putting a Pi in a Container
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/30/putting-a-pi-in-a-container/

Docker and other containerization applications have changed a lot about the way that developers create new software as well as how they maintain virtual machines. Not only does containerization reduce …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/30/putting-a-pi-in-a-container/)

The Computer We All Wish We’d Had In The 8-Bit Era
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/the-computer-we-all-wish-wed-had-in-the-8-bit-era/

The 8-bit home computers of yore that we all know and love, without exception as far as we are aware, had an off the shelf microprocessor at heart. In 1983 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/the-computer-we-all-wish-wed-had-in-the-8-bit-era/)

Universal Power Bank Customized To Your Liking
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/universal-power-bank-customized-to-your-liking/

One of the most troubling trends of almost every modern consumer product that uses electricity is that the software that controls the product is likely to be proprietary and closed-source, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/universal-power-bank-customized-to-your-liking/)

Make Your Own Point Contact Transistor
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/make-your-own-point-contact-transistor/

Beyond the power variant, it sometimes seems as though we rarely encounter a discrete transistor these days, such has been the advance of integrated electronics. But they have a rich …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/make-your-own-point-contact-transistor/)

Taking a Spirograph Mill for a Spin
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/taking-a-spirograph-mill-for-a-spin/

Spirographs can make some pretty groovy designs on paper, but what if you want to take it a step further? [Uri Tuchman] has used the pantograph on his milling machine …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/taking-a-spirograph-mill-for-a-spin/)