Gareth Halfacree's Hobby Tech
Welcome to Gareth Halfacree's Hobby Tech on Gemini. Here you'll find lightweight copies of the articles I write regarding hobbyist technologies from single-board computers and vintage computing to electronics and, yes, even smolweb technologies like Gemini.
Hobby Tech originally began as a monthly column in Dennis Publishing's Custom PC Magazine; since the magazine's closure I've been publishing digitally in its place.
As there is - and will continue to be - absolutely zero user tracking on this site, I'm curious to see how many people it reaches. If you have a minute, please drop me an email - comments, criticisms, and questions welcome. On the latter front, if I get enough interest I may even add a Gemini-exclusive letters page to the mix.
Thursday 7th May 2026
2026-05-07 Home Assistant 2026.5 Brings "First-Class" Support for Controlling Sub-Gigahertz Devices
2026-05-07 Ploopy Takes a Leaf out of IBM's Book, Launches the 3D-Printable Bean Pointing Stick
Wednesday 6th May 2026
2026-05-06 NextAxis Design's OVO Swaps the Mouse for an Egg — Promising Natural, Easy, 3D Control
Tuesday 5th May 2026
2026-05-05 Joseph Little's DeskRadar64 Puts an LED Matrix Twist on Desktop ADS-B Visualization
Monday 4th May 2026
2026-05-04 This 3D-Printed SSH-and-Telnet Terminal Packs a Real CRT for True Vintage Appeal
2026-05-04 Erich Styger's MetaClockClock78 Clock-of-Clocks Display is The Biggest Yet
Friday 1st May 2026
2026-05-01 8086YES!'s BOOK II Is a Compact, Feature-Packed Portable Apple II — Built With TTL Logic
2026-05-01 Researchers Warn of an Easily-Exploitable Privilege Escalation Vuln in Linux: Copy Fail