Have you ever hung out at your local power station?

A little forethought never goes astray. Are you still measuring twice and cutting once, or are you 3D printing endless revisions to dial things in? 😄

right at this very moment, somebody is plotting a plotter, somebody is plotting with a plotter, and somebody is plotting to write about their plotter and send it in to the Hackaday tips line... ...look, we write about a lot of plotters.

Is it just us or was this peak design?

Does the Windows 11 taskbar calendar often crash for you? We'd love to hear your experiences.

Pour one out for your friends cursed with keyboards that *don't* have CTRL at the bottom left corner of the layout.

Do you ever wonder if there's someone out there still using Windows 8?

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As computers grew more powerful and gained colorful displays, somehow they felt less arcane...

Quite a legacy.

One of Iomega's last gasps - the handsome 750MB Zip drive. Notably, it could read - but not write - the original 100MB Zip disk format.

Burn Notice: older than you think