If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the exclusive preserve of old men with shiny radios talking about old times remains a challenge. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/are-hackers-the-future-of-amateur-radio/)

Lasers Could Help Us Recycle Plastics Into Carbon Dots
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/lasers-could-help-us-recycle-plastics-into-carbon-dots/

As it turns out, a great deal of plastics are thrown away every year, a waste which feels ever growing. Still, as reported by Sci-Tech Daily, there may be help on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/lasers-could-help-us-recycle-plastics-into-carbon-dots/)

This Modded Shopping Cart Probably Isn’t Street Legal
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/this-modded-shopping-cart-probably-isnt-street-legal/

If you don’t count the high center of gravity, the weight limit, the weak chassis, or the small size, a standard shopping cart is an almost ideal platform for building …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/this-modded-shopping-cart-probably-isnt-street-legal/)

Secrets of the Old Digital Design Titans
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/secrets-of-the-old-digital-design-titans/

Designing combinatorial digital circuits seems like it should be easy. After all, you can do everything you want with just AND, OR, and NOT gates. Bonus points if you have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/secrets-of-the-old-digital-design-titans/)

Supercon 2023: Bringing Arcade Classics to New Hardware
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/supercon-2023-bringing-arcade-classics-to-new-hardware/

The processing power of modern game consoles is absolutely staggering when compared to the coin-op arcade machines of the early 1980s. Packed with terabytes of internal storage and gigabytes of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/supercon-2023-bringing-arcade-classics-to-new-hardware/)

A Nostalgic Look at a Kid’s Shortwave Resistor
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/a-nostalgic-look-at-a-kids-shortwave-resistor/

[Mikrowave1] had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the 1960s using germanium and silicon transistors. It also had plug-in coils you had …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/a-nostalgic-look-at-a-kids-shortwave-resistor/)

Single-Stepping the 6502 Processor
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/single-stepping-the-6502-processor/

Although marketing folk and laypeople may credit [Steve Jobs] as the man behind the success of Apple, those in the tech world know the real truth that without [Steve Wozniak] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/18/single-stepping-the-6502-processor/)