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Dozens of Solenoids Turn Vintage Typewriter into a Printer

Dozens of Solenoids Turn Vintage Typewriter into a Printer - An electric typewriter is a rare and wonderful thrift store find, and even better ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/dozens-of-solenoids-turn-vintage-typewriter-into-a-printer/ #electrictypewriter #classichacks #typewriter #solenoid #printer #matrix #mosfet #parts

Tracking the ISS Made Easy - If you made something blink, and now it’s time for you to make something move, som... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/tracking-the-iss-made-easy/ #internationalspacestation #classichacks #arduino #tracker

Command and Conquer Ported to the Pi Pico 2 - A couple of months back, Electronic Arts did something uncharacteristically benevo... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/command-and-conquer-ported-to-the-pi-pico-2/ #commandandconquer #raspberrypipico2 #electronicarts #classichacks #games #port

A Very Trippy Look at Microsoft’s Beginnings - It’s not often you’ll see us singing the praises of Microsoft on these pages, but ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-very-trippy-look-at-microsofts-beginnings/ #classichacks #billgates #microsoft #webdesign #news

A Forgotten Photographic Process Characterised - Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, and ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/a-forgotten-photographic-process-characterised/ #19thcenturyphotography #classichacks #photography #collodion

Protocol Analyzer Remembered - Anyone will tell you that as hard as it is to create a working system, the real tr... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/protocol-analyzer-remembered/ #protocolanalyzer #retrocomputing #testequipment #classichacks #rs232

Contagious Ideas - We ran a story about a wall-mounted plotter bot this week, Mural. It’s a simple, b... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/29/contagious-ideas/ #hackadaycolumns #classichacks #wallplotter #plotter #rants #idea #art

Recreating the Analog Beauty of a Vintage Tektronix Oscillator - Tektronix must have been quite a place to work back in the 1980s. The company offe... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/29/recreating-the-analog-beauty-of-a-vintage-tektronix-oscillator/ #totalharmonicdistortion #classichacks #oscillator #tektronix #sinewave #analog #parts #fft #tek #thd

Pictures from a High Altitude Balloon - How do you get images downlinked from 30 km up? Hams might guess SSTV — slow scan ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/28/pictures-from-a-high-altitude-balloon/ #highaltitudeballoon #wirelesshacks #classichacks #sstv

Math, Optimized: Sweden’s Maximal Multi-Divi - Back in the early 1900s, before calculators lived in our pockets, crunching number... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/28/math-optimized-swedens-maximal-multi-divi/ #retrocomputing #multiplication #classichacks #calculation #multi-divi #numbers #sweden #book #divi

Chase Light SAO Shouldn’t Have Used a 555, and Didn’t - Around these parts, projects needlessly using a microcontroller where a simpler de... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/chase-light-sao-shouldnt-have-used-a-555-and-didnt/ #2025hackadayeurope #classichacks #ledhacks #chaser #mask #sao

Rolling Foam Cutter Gives Mattress a Close Shave - There’s many different reasons why somebody might have to hack together their own ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/24/rolling-foam-cutter-gives-mattress-a-close-shave/ #hotwirefoamcutter #classichacks #foamcutter #toolhacks #foam

“Unnecessary” Automation of a DIY Star Lamp Build - It all started with a gift idea: a star-field lamp in the form of a concrete spher... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/23/unnecessary-automation-of-a-diy-star-lamp-build/ #classichacks #automation #cnchacks #machine #cnc

Building the Simplest Atomic Force Microscope - Doing it yourself may not get you the most precise lab equipment in the world, but... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/23/building-the-simplest-atomic-force-microscope/ #atomicforcemicroscope #classichacks #science

Card Radios Remembered - We know how [Techmoan] feels. In the 1980s we had a bewildering array of oddball g... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/22/card-radios-remembered/ #classichacks #cardradio #casio

Building a Handheld Pong Game - Pong was one of the first video games to really enter the public consciousness. Wh... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/21/building-a-handheld-pong-game/ #3dprintedenclosure #classichacks #handheld #games #esp32 #pong

Reviving a Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From the 1970s - A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/reviving-a-maplin-4600-diy-synthesizer-from-the-1970s/ #classichacks #musicalhacks #refurbished #synthesizer #maplin4600 #vintage #synth #diy

Probably The Simplest Sequencing Synth - With inexpensive microntrollers capable of the most impressive feats of sound synt... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/15/probably-the-simplest-sequencing-synth/ #classichacks #musicalhacks #synthesiser #cmos

A Fast Rewind to the Era of Tapesponding - Imagine a time before Discord servers and cheap long-distance calls. Back in the 1... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/12/a-fast-rewind-to-the-era-of-tapesponding/ #homeentertainmenthacks #communication #classichacks #longdistance #magnetictape #tapesponding #tapesponding #radiohacks #cassette #social #tapes #reel #tape