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Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s might be familiar with the Atari 2600 console and its now relatively ...

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The Sony PlayStation Portable, better known as the PSP, is now over two decades old. In its day it was an impressive handheld ...

The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you ...

We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are, and two don’t count. Yes, ...

As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century of radios to choose from, some of them ...

Flying and driving simulators can go as far as money will take you, and at some point it might end up being cheaper to buy a plane or race car than to keep adding capabilities to some of the sim rigs ...

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Although the feature has been deleted from newer models, there was a time when Amazon’s Echo devices included a 3.5 mm “aux” ...

As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret Hamilton was responsible for ...