7+ hour, 42+ min ago  (32+ words) Whatever happens with the new incarnation of the Commodore corporation, we'll always remember the old one fondly. Well, we'll remember certain of its products fondly, at any rate, if not the corporate. .....

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (35+ words) E-ink displays have a number of advantages over other display types, but their refresh rate isn't one of them. But what exactly makes them slow? According to [Wenting Zhang], it's not an inherent limi. .....

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (33+ words) Need a hinge in your 3 D printed design and would prefer not to re-invent the wheel? You may find [Alex Krush]'s glue-in filament hinge useful. [caption id="attachment_1117116" align="alignright" widt. .....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (33+ words) The most recent Hackaday event badge has been the Communicator, a handheld wireless terminal with a rather nice QWERTY keyboard. It's good enough as delivered, but [make TVee] has gone one better and m. .....

2+ week, 21+ hour ago  (90+ words) [caption id="attachment_1116172" align="alignright" width="400"] Texas Instruments SA5532 A variant of the 5532 op-amp. (Credit: Raimond Spekking, Wikimedia)[/caption] First introduced in 1979 by Sign. .....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (34+ words) Although LCD displays have been used in almost every type of consumer electronics display over the last two decades, many of these screens have a few downsides that limit their usefulness in certain s. .....

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (237+ words) Hackaday Do you remember, some years ago, when that brand-new 8086-based laptop hit the shelves? Great for PC lovers, but not so fun for those on the fruitier side of the street Well, the same Chinese firm that brought us…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1335+ words) ["Linux On Android Provides Inexpensive, Powerful Computing Hackaday In some parts of the world it's common for cell service providers to sell new phones at a price significantly below market value, with the caveat that these phones are locked to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (436+ words) Typically, when we think of touch screens, we think of LCDs or OLEDs with a resistive or capacitive sensing layer laid over the top. However, a team from the University of Chicago has developed an ent. .....

4+ week, 17+ hour ago  (33+ words) Mobile devices generally have one Achilles' heel when it comes to computing power: thermal throttling. Outside of bulky desktop and server systems, chips have to run at a fraction of their true potent. .....