For this year’s Hackaday Prize, we’re doing something special. We’re introducing achievements for Prize projects. Think of them as merit badges. If your Hackaday Prize project has multiple parts that ...

Once you’ve seen this beauty of a relay computer in action, you’ll find it hard to resist the lure of building something similar yourself. Once you’ve seen this beauty of a relay computer in action, ...

If you study the history of computing you might have heard of the FACOM 128B, a Japanese relay computer from 1958. It holds the distinction of being a contender for the oldest computer that still ...

This mini-series of articles describes how to build a computer’s CPU (central processing unit) out of relays. “Y” in English sounds like “guay” in Spanish (my mother tongue), a colloquial expression ...

Fujitsu today announced that Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science has decided to register its FACOM128B relay-type automatic computer (1) as "Essential Historical Materials for Science and ...

After Germany (Zuse Z3 and Z4), Sweden was the second country on the European continent to develop its own computer (the Bark), in 1950. The third country to do so was Ukraine (with the Mesm). The ...

The history of computer science in Switzerland begins with the founding of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich. In order to acquire "in-depth knowledge of modern electrical and ...

Nearly 70 years ago in September 1947, computer operators discovered what would eventually be known as the first actual computer bug. The bug, found 66 years ago on September 9 in a Mark II Aiken ...

The protocol really ought to be replaced, perhaps with a standard industrial automation protocol, but I haven't gotten around to researching what is suitably simple enough. For now, it is this: 115200 ...

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The application will automatically reload if you change any of the source files. This IDE is built ...