Today’s supply chain issues can make it hard to buy microcontrollers, or really any kind of semiconductor. But for those keeping retrocomputers alive, this problem has always existed: ancient components …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/upgrading-a-soviet-calculator-with-a-modern-cpu/)

An Up-To-Date Development Environment For The Nokia N-Gage
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/an-up-to-date-development-environment-for-the-nokia-n-gage/

One of the brave but unsuccessful plays from Nokia during their glory years was the N-Gage, an attempt to merge a Symbian smartphone and a handheld game console. It may …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/an-up-to-date-development-environment-for-the-nokia-n-gage/)

SHERLOC and the Search for Life on Mars
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/sherloc-and-the-search-for-life-on-mars/

Humanity has been wondering about whether life exists beyond our little backwater planet for so long that we’ve developed a kind of cultural bias as to how the answer to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/sherloc-and-the-search-for-life-on-mars/)

Robotic Xylophone Makes Music with MIDI Magic
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/robotic-xylophone-makes-music-with-midi-magic/

The MIDI format has long been used to create some banging electronic music, so it’s refreshing to see how [John P. Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/robotic-xylophone-makes-music-with-midi-magic/)

Remoticon 2021 // Voja Antonic Makes You a Digital Designer
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/remoticon-2021-voja-antonic-makes-you-a-digital-designer/

[Voja Antonic] has been building digital computers since before many of us were born. He designed with the Z80 when it was new, and has decades of freelance embedded experience, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/remoticon-2021-voja-antonic-makes-you-a-digital-designer/)

Reject Modernity; Return To Tamagotchi
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/reject-modernity-return-to-tamagotchi/

Browsing through the recent projects on Hackaday.io, we’ve found this entry by [NanoCodeBug]: a single-PCB low-power trinket reviving the “pocket pet” concept while having some fun in the process! Some …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/reject-modernity-return-to-tamagotchi/)

Recreating MS Paint For The ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/recreating-ms-paint-for-the-esp32/

Microsoft Paint was one of the first creative outlets for many children when they first laid hands on a computer in the 1990s. Now, [Volos Projects] has brought the joy …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/recreating-ms-paint-for-the-esp32/)

Jukebox Electromechanical Automation Explained
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/27/jukebox-electromechanical-automation-explained/