Today is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with a few boxes of old …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/dungeons-and-dragons-board-game-from-the-1980s-holds-a-tms1100/)

ArtNet Not Going Through? Your Switch Might Be Protecting You
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/artnet-not-going-through-your-switch-might-be-protecting-you/

Cool technology often comes at a cost, and it’s not always that this cost is justified. For instance, [Rainfay] tells us about how the the ArtNet protocol’s odd design choices …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/artnet-not-going-through-your-switch-might-be-protecting-you/)

Deciphering Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart’s Lost Letters
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/deciphering-queen-of-scots-mary-stuarts-lost-letters/

Communications by important people over the past thousands of years have been regularly encrypted, making the breaking of this encryption both an essential and also a fascinating historical field. One …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/deciphering-queen-of-scots-mary-stuarts-lost-letters/)

RCA’s Clear Plastic TV Wowed Crowds In 1939
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/rcas-clear-plastic-tv-wowed-crowds-in-1939/

In the United States in 1939, television sets still had a long way to go before they pretty much sold themselves. Efforts to do just that are what led to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/rcas-clear-plastic-tv-wowed-crowds-in-1939/)

Challenging A Broken DualShock 4 Controller To A Duel
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/challenging-a-broken-dualshock-4-controller-to-a-duel/

A broken PlayStation controller would normally be a bummer, and if the issue is losing calibration that’s stored in a non-documented format, you might as well bin it. For [Al] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/challenging-a-broken-dualshock-4-controller-to-a-duel/)

Hackaday Links: February 12, 2023
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/hackaday-links-february-12-2023/

So, maybe right now isn’t the best time to get into the high-altitude ballooning hobby? At least in the US, which with the downing of another — whatever? — over …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/hackaday-links-february-12-2023/)

This CRT-Style Pi Portable Gets All the Details Right
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/this-crt-style-pi-portable-gets-all-the-details-right/

A quick glance at the “Pi Terminal” built by [Salim Benbouziyane], and you might think he pulled an old CRT monitor out of a video editing bay and gutted it. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/this-crt-style-pi-portable-gets-all-the-details-right/)

GhostSCAD: Marrying OpenSCAD and Golang
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/12/ghostscad-marrying-openscad-and-golang/