by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 14, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
[Ben Heck] found an old card-swipe point-of-sale box at the Goodwill store, took it home, and tore it down to see what was inside. He found a completely serviceable single board computer based on the Z80. In fact, there’s a whole family of four Z80 chips: the...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 9, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
It can be difficult for modern eyes to make much sense of electronics from the 1960s or earlier. Between the point-to-point soldering, oddball components, and the familiar looking passives blown up to comical proportions like rejected props from “Honey, I Shrunk...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 7, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Hardware
The venerable ATX standard was developed in 1995 by Intel, as an attempt to standardize what had until then been a PC ecosystem formed around the IBM AT PC’s legacy. The preceding AT form factor was not so much a standard as it was the copying of the IBM...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jun 4, 2021 | [Tech News], Hackaday, Security
One of the main advantages of cheap wireless modules is that they get used in consumer electronics, so if you know what’s being used you can build your own compatible hardware. While investigating the RF interface used in a series of cheap “smart”...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | May 26, 2021 | [Tech News], AI, Hackaday, Privacy
Like most of us, [Peter] had a bit of extra time on his hands during quarantine and decided to take a look back at speech recognition technology in the 1970s. Quickly, he started thinking to himself, “Hmm…I wonder if I could do this with an Arduino...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | May 24, 2021 | [Tech News], AI, Hackaday
We know you love a good biohack as much as we do, so we thought you would like [Tony’s] brainwave-controlled RC truck. Instead of building his own electroencephalogram (EEG), he thought he would use NeuroSky’s MindWave. EEGs are pretty complex,...
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