The homebrew vacuum-tube computer the internet fell for this week reminds us how far we've come.

Pocket computers like Sharp’s 8-bit computing marvels were a big part of the 1980s, providing super-portable processing power to anyone who wanted a bit more than what something like a scientific ...

Here at Hackaday HQ we’re no strangers to vintage game emulation. New versions of old consoles and arcade cabinets frequently make excellent fodder for clever hacks to cram as much functionality as ...

Brought to you by CineFix, which has also made an eight-bit version of The Walking Dead The Titanic finished sinking 103 years ago Wednesday. (Technically, it started sinking on the 14th, when it ...

A while ago, we published an article in which we outlined why it's possibly reasonable to shoot in 8-bit, albeit under some fairly constrained circumstances. Does it still stand? Well, sort of... The ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Dozens of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) inhabit the average new automobile, which says something about both 8-bit MCUs and automobiles. Today's automobiles are nothing like their predecessors. Whereas ...

Resolution, bit depth, compression, bit rate. These are just few of the countless parameters our cameras and files have. Let's talk about bit depth here. There's a lot of good talk about 10 bit and a ...

Dull and faded HDR videos in Firefox will soon look vibrant again. Mozilla patched an 8-bit color rendering bug ahead of the stable Firefox 157 release.