Category: The Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday 29 May 2019 at noon Pacific for the Retrocomputing for the Masses Hack Chat! Of the early crop of personal computers that made their way to market before IBM and Apple came to dominate it, few machines achieved the iconic status that the Sinclair ZX80 did. Perhaps it was its unusual […]
Join us Thursday at noon Pacific time for the OSH Park Hack Chat with Drew and Chris!Note the different day from our usual Hack Chat schedule! Printed circuit boards have been around for decades, and mass production of them has been an incalculable boon to the electronics industry. But turning the economics of PCB production […]
Join us Wednesday at 5:00 PM Pacific time for the IoT and Agriculture Hack Chat with Akiba! Note the different time than our usual Hack Chat slot! Akiba willi be joining us from Japan. No matter what your feelings are about the current state of the world, you can’t escape the fact that 7.7 billion […]
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Marketing and Selling Hardware Hack Chat with Shawn Hymel! It may not be every hardware hacker’s dream, but a fair number of us harbor fantasies of thinking up the Next Big Thing and kissing the day job goodbye forever. It’s an understandable dream and a laudable […]
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the AI at the Edge Hack Chat with John Welsh from NVIDIA! Machine learning was once the business of big iron like IBM’s Watson or the nearly limitless computing power of the cloud. But the power in AI is moving away from data centers to the edge, […]
Join us Wednesday at noon Pacific time for the Home Machine Shop Hack Chat! Even if you haven’t been here for very long, you’ll probably recognize Quinn Dunki as Hackaday’s resident consulting machinist. Quinn recently did a great series of articles on the “King of Machine Tools”, the lathe, covering everything from the history of […]