The history of Commodore 8-bit computers ends with a fantastically powerful, revolutionary, as well as extraordinarily collectible device. The Commodore 65 was the poultry lip’ last-ditch effort to capture every last bit out of the tradition of the Commodore 64. Basically, it was a rework of a 10-year-old design, adding advanced features from the Amiga, however…
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[Achu Wilson’s] latest creation is a VGA message board which is written to via SMS text messages. This doesn’t sound too interesting at first, until you find out he’s doing this with a microcontroller rather than a PC. all of the complexity is in the code that drives the VGA. He managed to do it…
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[Henrik] really turned out a nice little Geiger counter board based on a chilly war age Geiger tube. It works in much the same way as other projects along the same lines. It does run on batteries if needed, which is no small feat since the tube wants high voltage to operate correctly. as well as…
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Phone screens keep getting bigger. computer screens keep getting bigger. Why not a large trackpad to use as a mouse? [MaddyMaxey] had that thought and with a few components and some sewing skills created a trackpad in a tablecloth. The electronics in this project are ideal off the shelf. A Flora board for the brains…
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We are utilized to stories about reverse engineering integrated circuits, in these pages. Some interesting exposés of traditional chips have been created by people such as the ever-hard-working [Ken Shirriff]. You may believe that this method would be something new, confined only to those thinking about the workings of now-obsolete silicon. however the tricks of…
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The very first difficulty of the 2017 Hackaday prize closes on this coming Monday morning. You have about 72 hours hours to submit your entry. The challenge, called style Your Concept, is truly about a plan. Seeing a job with depends greatly on your capability to foresee where the pain points are. will you get half method…
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how does one take a game of Simon and make it incredibly awesome? The people at the North street Labs — a Hackerspace in Portsmouth, Virginia — have found the secret and it’s all in the execution. They turned this chair-desk into a coin-operated Simon game that hides a substantial surprise. We expect you ought…
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The newly released Arduino Leonardo has a few very interesting features, many notably the ability to act as a USB keyboard and mouse thanks to the new ATmega 32U4 microcontroller. This feature isn’t exclusive to the Leonoardo, as [Michael] discusses in a build he sent in – the lowly Arduino Uno can also serve as a…
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A few weeks ago, [Debarghya Das] had two good friends eagerly awaiting the results of their High institution exit exams, the ISC national examination, taken by 65,000 12th graders in India. This examination is vitally important for every student’s future; a few points determines which university will accept you as well as which will reject…
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