Norton was always a PC company — Norton Commander, the file manager that launched a thousand clones, was only ever available for DOS, like the rest of the company’s offerings …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/new-file-manager-is-c64s-answer-to-norton-commander/)

Congratulations to the Frikkin Laser Winners!
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/congratulations-to-the-frikkin-laser-winners/

Apparently you all love lasers just as much as we do. We put out a challenge to use, build, or otherwise abuse our favorite coherent light sources, and you responded. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/congratulations-to-the-frikkin-laser-winners/)

Child-Friendly Music Player Uses RFID
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/child-friendly-music-player-uses-rfid/

[David] has a young child who is clever enough to use a computer to play music, but he doesn’t quite want to hand over the mouse just yet. Thus, he …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/child-friendly-music-player-uses-rfid/)

Circuit Bending, But Make It MIDI
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/circuit-bending-but-make-it-midi/

Circuit bending is a chaotic art. At its simplest, it can just involve making connections between random points on a circuit board to create weird sounds in musical hardware. Or, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/circuit-bending-but-make-it-midi/)

Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/energizing-a-vacuum-tube-flip-flop-module-of-the-ibm-604/

Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/energizing-a-vacuum-tube-flip-flop-module-of-the-ibm-604/)

Sketching Temporary Circuits with a Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/sketching-temporary-circuits-with-a-light-triggered-floquet-topological-insulator/

In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison a topological insulator material could be used to create temporary circuits using …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/sketching-temporary-circuits-with-a-light-triggered-floquet-topological-insulator/)

A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/a-versatile-pdp-11-70-emulator/

The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/a-versatile-pdp-11-70-emulator/)

Yellow YAG Produces Powerful Pulses in Les’ Leftover Laser
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/04/yellow-yag-produces-powerful-pulses-in-les-leftover-laser/