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Trying To Fix A Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (40+ words) When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect 'yes', with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less than 10% of said $3,000 asking pric......
Old IPad Keyboard Makes For A Modern Netbook
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (199+ words) hackaday.com Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on the move with ease Unfortunately manufacturers were scared…...
There’s A Whole Computer Inside This Mouse
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (258+ words) [Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse“, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s nothing IBM-compatible about the tiny ARM board he squeezes inside…...
There’s Whole Computer Inside This Mouse
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (42+ words) [Gadget Industry] bills it as "a PC inside a Mouse", but that depends on your definition of a "PC". This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there's nothing IBM-compatible about the tiny A......
A Split Keyboard Designed For Human Hands
1+ week, 2+ day ago (37+ words) A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors. The bicycle retains the same basic design as it had in 1890, as does the sewin......
HDMI For The Color Computer 2
1+ week, 4+ day ago (41+ words) [Scott Baker] bought a TRS-80 Color Computer off eBay some five years ago. He'd always intended to add a CoCoVGA or CoCoDV upgrade to hook it up to a monitor, but the device was sold out and his name......
Giving The NES An Optical Data Storage Add-On
1+ week, 6+ day ago (35+ words) The introduction of optical media in the form of CDs meant a revolution in the world of gaming consoles, escaping the restrictions of a few dozen MB of storage and instead offering a theoretically inf......
DOOM Played On Series Of 555 Timers
2+ week, 1+ day ago (37+ words) It's technically true that any piece of software can be reproduced in hardware, although modern software's size and complexity generally makes this a non-starter. But if we go far enough back in time,......
Building A Headless Game Boy Emulator
2+ week, 2+ day ago (41+ words) [Artificial-Age] has built a rather unique way to play old Game Boy games. It's an emulator, but it doesn't work in quite the way you might think! Since the Game Boy is a relatively simple 8-bit mach......
Emulating The IPod
2+ week, 3+ day ago (235+ words) Hackaday These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines and so much else to boot Now, though, a particularly popular MP3 player has an emulator of its ownâby…...