One Lucky 3DS Gets A Switch-Style Dock
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alt=""/>The Nintendo Switch dock set a new bar for handheld docking user experience – just plug your console in to charge it, output image to your monitor, and keep it 
alt=""/>The Nintendo Switch dock set a new bar for handheld docking user experience – just plug your console in to charge it, output image to your monitor, and keep it Hackaday
One Lucky 3DS Gets A Switch-Style Dock
The Nintendo Switch dock set a new bar for handheld docking user experience – just plug your console in to charge it, output image to your mo...
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One Lucky 3DS Gets A Switch-Style Dock
The Nintendo Switch dock set a new bar for handheld docking user experience – just plug your console in to charge it, output image to your mo...
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alt=""/>NVMe solid state disk drives have become inexpensive unless you want the very largest sizes. But how do you get the most out of one? There are two basic strategies: 
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alt=""/>[Alexwlchan] noticed something funny. He knew that not putting a size for a video embedded in a web page would cause his page to jump around after the video loaded. 
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alt="Computer rendering of a DIY, purple Nintendo Wavebird controller adapter"/>After scouring the second-hand shops and the endless pages of eBay for original video game hardware, a pattern emerges. The size of the accessory matters. If a relatively big controller 
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alt="Hackaday Links Column Banner"/>We stumbled upon a story this week that really raised our eyebrows and made us wonder if we were missing something. The gist of the story is that U.S. Secretary 
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alt=""/>If you’ve got an RTL-SDR compatible receiver, you’ve probably used it for picking up signals from all kinds of weird things. Now, [Jaron McDaniel] has built a tool to integrate 
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alt=""/>Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the ROMs required to make a retrocomputer run. Even worse, what if you’re rolling your own firmware? Period-appropriate EPROMs and their programmers aren’t always 