How Commodore Made a Sync Splitter
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/how-commodore-made-a-sync-splitter/

Recently we featured an unusual Commodore 8-bit computer on the bench of [Tynemouth Software] — a Commodore 64 in a PET case. One of the unique parts it had was …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/how-commodore-made-a-sync-splitter/)

Easy-ish Glitch Camera? There’s a Pi 4 That
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/easy-ish-glitch-camera-theres-a-pi-4-that/

Usually, when you want to make glitchy images with lots of colors and things, you have to poke around inside a camera and successfully circuit-bend the thing without bricking it. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/easy-ish-glitch-camera-theres-a-pi-4-that/)

Win95-Tracker-CYD is a Cheap Yellow Mod Tracker with I2S
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/win95-tracker-cyd-is-a-cheap-yellow-mod-tracker-with-i2s/

The Cheap Yellow Display is a great little module to start a project with, but it wouldn’t necessarily be our first choice for an audio device. That’s because the PWM …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/win95-tracker-cyd-is-a-cheap-yellow-mod-tracker-with-i2s/)

Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot?
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/could-your-next-house-be-built-from-giant-lego-by-an-inchworm-robot/

Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time horizon is a ways further out, [Miana Smith] at MIT …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/could-your-next-house-be-built-from-giant-lego-by-an-inchworm-robot/)

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/reverse-engineering-the-1998-ultima-online-demo-server/

In any MMORPG, the average user will generally only encounter the client side of the system. This makes building a compatible open source version of the proprietary server into a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/reverse-engineering-the-1998-ultima-online-demo-server/)

Getting a Proprietary-Bus GPU onto PCIe Enables Cheaper Local LLMs, For Now
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/09/getting-a-proprietary-bus-gpu-onto-pcie-enables-cheaper-local-llms-for-now/

If you’ve been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don’t have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out [Hardware Haven]’s latest video on an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/09/getting-a-proprietary-bus-gpu-onto-pcie-enables-cheaper-local-llms-for-now/)

It’s an Apple Lisa, on a FPGA
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/09/its-an-apple-lisa-on-a-fpga/

Most of us will know that Apple’s precursor to the Macintosh series of computers was a machine called the Lisa. Something of a behemoth compared to those early Macs, it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/05/09/its-an-apple-lisa-on-a-fpga/)