If you’ve been hanging around Hackaday for a while, you know that a large portion of the stuff we publish goes above and beyond what most people would consider a reasonable level of time and effort.

Anyone who’s ever had to deal with the aftermath of a leaking battery knows how much damage such a failure can cause. Degrading batteries leak corrosive chemicals that eat away PCB traces, clog up ...

Upon hearing the name "Atari," most people think "video games." But Atari dabbled in home computers as well, producing over a dozen different models between 1979 and 1992. If you're reading this now, ...

This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an obsessive’s eye the rise and fall of Atari 8-bit computers. While ...

What’s great about the Atari 400 Mini is that it can emulate all Atari 8-bit systems, including the 400, 800XL, and 5200. The console has been fully modernized, featuring 720 HD output, HDMI support, ...

Atari 800XL (1983) After the failure of the 1200XL, Atari went back to the drawing board and came up with the 600XL (with 16K of RAM) and 800XL (with 64K of RAM) computers, both of which sported ...

Upon hearing the name "Atari," most people think "video games." But Atari dabbled in home computers as well, producing over a dozen different models between 1979 and 1992. If you're reading this now, ...