In the home computer market of the 1980s, there were several winners that are still household names four decades later: the Commodore 64, the Apple II and the Sinclair Spectrum, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/08/adding-composite-video-to-the-mattel-aquarius/)

Large Format Photos Without The Large Price Tag
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/large-format-photos-without-the-large-price-tag/

There’s a good reason that the go-to format for most film photographers is 35 mm, in that it provides a mix of convenience and cost. Shooting huge large-format negatives in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/large-format-photos-without-the-large-price-tag/)

Ceiling-Mounted Orrery is an Excercise in Simplicity
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/ceiling-mounted-orrery-is-an-excercise-in-simplicity/

Ever since humans figured out that planets move along predetermined paths in the heavens, they have tried to make models that can accurately predict their motion. Watchmakers and astronomers worked …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/ceiling-mounted-orrery-is-an-excercise-in-simplicity/)

Agreeing by Disagreeing
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/agreeing-by-disagreeing/

While we were working on the podcast this week, Al Williams and I got into a debate about the utility of logic analyzers. (It’s Hackaday, after all.) He said they’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/agreeing-by-disagreeing/)

Rare Arcade Game Teardown and Mods
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/rare-arcade-game-teardown-and-mods/

[Video Game Esoterica] loves a 1990s video game called Operation Tiger. Apparently, there are only a few of these known to exist in 2023, and he managed to find one …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/rare-arcade-game-teardown-and-mods/)

Clean Water, From a Plant-Based Filter
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/clean-water-from-a-plant-based-filter/

If you’re an outdoors person, one of the earliest things you learned was probably that in-field water sources can’t always be trusted as drinkable. A clear mountain stream could have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/clean-water-from-a-plant-based-filter/)

Tape is Very, Very Quiet
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/tape-is-very-very-quiet/

If someone stops by and asks you to help them make some noisy thing less noisy, you probably wouldn’t reach for a roll of tape. But [The Action Lab] shows …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/tape-is-very-very-quiet/)

The WebStick is a Small, Cheap NAS
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/the-webstick-is-a-small-cheap-nas/