You can buy motorized camera sliders off-the-shelf, but they’re pretty costly. Alternatively, you can make one yourself, and it’s not even that hard if you’re kitted out with a 3D …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/camera-slider-uses-repositionable-rail-to-do-rotational-moves/)

ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/alsep-apollos-modular-lunar-experiments-laboratory/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ap16_pse.jpg?useskin=vector
" data-image-caption="Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package of the Apollo 16 mission (Credit: NASA)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alsep_apollo_16_NASA.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alsep_apollo_16_NASA.jpg?w=800">Although the US’ Moon landings were mostly made famous by the fact that it featured real-life human beings bunny hopping across the lunar surface, they weren’t there just for a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/alsep-apollos-modular-lunar-experiments-laboratory/)

Watch Any Video on Your Game Boy, Via Link Cable
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/watch-any-video-on-your-game-boy-via-link-cable/

Game Boys have a link cable that lets two of them play together. You know, to battle with a friend’s Pokemon and stuff like that. But who says that it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/watch-any-video-on-your-game-boy-via-link-cable/)

Calling Pink Floyd
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/calling-pink-floyd/

[Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals in the 1982 film The Wall, based on the Pink Floyd song of the same name. We suspect …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/calling-pink-floyd/)

Retrotechtacular: Quest for the “Big Boy” CRT Finds New Home in Mini Doc
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/retrotechtacular-quest-for-the-big-boy-crt-finds-new-home-in-mini-doc/

Size comparison of a 27 in CRT TV next to a 43 in CRT TV.
" data-image-caption="Size comparison of a 27 in CRT TV next to a 43 in CRT TV.
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Largest-CRT-Thumbnail.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Largest-CRT-Thumbnail.png?w=800">To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their Trinitron line of televisions, Sony launched the KX-45ED1. At forty three inches the screen on this particular model made it the largest tube …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/retrotechtacular-quest-for-the-big-boy-crt-finds-new-home-in-mini-doc/)

The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/the-mystery-of-the-messed-up-hammond-x5/

[Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and every C#, D, D#, E, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/the-mystery-of-the-messed-up-hammond-x5/)

Keeping Track of Old Computer Manuals with the Manx Catalog
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/keeping-track-of-old-computer-manuals-with-the-manx-catalog/

An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only existed on paper. That’s not to say there aren’t scanned-in (PDF) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/keeping-track-of-old-computer-manuals-with-the-manx-catalog/)

A Twenty-Segment Display, Artistically
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/24/a-twenty-segment-display-artistically/