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Video Game Preservation Through Decompilation

Unlike computer games, which smoothly and continuously evolved along with the hardware that powered them, console games have up until very recently been constrained by a generational style of development. …read more

Eulogy For The Satellite Phone

We take it for granted that we almost always have cell service, no matter where you go around town. But there are places — the desert, the forest, or the …read more

Hackaday Links: June 22, 2025

Hold onto your hats, everyone — there’s stunning news afoot. It’s hard to believe, but it looks like over-reliance on chatbots to do your homework can turn your brain into …read more

Just For Laughs: Charlie Douglass And The Laugh Track

I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots …read more

A Gentle Introduction To Ncurses For The Terminally Impatient

Considered by many to be just a dull output for sequential text, the command-line terminal is a veritable canvas to the creative software developer. With the cursor as the brush, …read more

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    By Navarre Bartz | June 24, 2025

    Spending time as wee hackers perusing the family atlas taught us an appreciation for a good map, and [Billy Roberts], a cartographer at NREL, has served up a doozy with …read more

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    Digitally-Converted Leica Gets A 64-Megapixel Upgrade

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    By Lewin Day | June 24, 2025

    Leica’s film cameras were hugely popular in the 20th century, and remain so with collectors to this day. [Michael Suguitan] has previously had great success converting his classic Leica into …read more

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    Pong In Discrete Components

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    By Bryan Cockfield | June 24, 2025

    The choice between hardware and software for electronics projects is generally a straighforward one. For simple tasks we might build dedicated hardware circuits out of discrete components for reliability and …read more

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    Do You Need A Bench Meter?

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    By Al Williams | June 24, 2025

    If you do anything with electronics or electricity, it is a good bet you have a multimeter. Even the cheapest meter today would have been an incredible piece of lab …read more

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    Announcing The 2025 Pet Hacks Winners

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    By Elliot Williams | June 24, 2025

    When you really love your pawed, feathered, or scaled friends, you build projects for them. (Well, anyway, that’s what’s happened to us.) For the 2025 Pet Hacks Challenge, we asked …read more

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    Why Trijets Lost Against Twinjets

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    By Maya Posch | June 24, 2025

    If you’re designing a new jet-powered airplane, one of the design considerations is the number of jet engines you will put on it. Over the course of history we have …read more

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    Mining And Refining: Drilling And Blasting

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    By Dan Maloney | June 24, 2025

    It’s an inconvenient fact that most of Earth’s largesse of useful minerals is locked up in, under, and around a lot of rock. Our little world condensed out of the …read more

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