Collaborate Disseminate
Although largely recognizable to anyone who had a video game console in the 80s or 90s, cartridges have long since disappeared from the computing world. These squares of plastic with …read more Continue reading A New Cartridge for an Old Computer
[Tim] noticed recently that a large number of projects recreating discrete logic tend to do so with technology around 70 years old like resistor-transistor logic (RTL) or diode-transistor logic (DTL). …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Digital Logic With Analog Components
It’s a well-known conundrum that while most computers these days are digital in nature, almost nothing in nature is. Most things we encounter in the real world, whether it’s temperature, …read more Continue reading A High Resolution DAC From Scratch
Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden in mist, or deep in the jungle. From Atlantis, Avalon, …read more Continue reading The Internet We Didn’t Get
In the late 2010s, the Ender 3 printers were arguably the most popular line of 3D printers worldwide, and for good reason. They combined simplicity and reliability in a package …read more Continue reading Improved 3D Printer Cannibalizes Two Older Printers
The creator of infinite vertical scrolling in social media, [Aza Raskin], infamously regrets his creation that has helped to waste a tremendous amount of human attention and time on the …read more Continue reading infinityTerminal Brings Infinite Horizontal Scrolling
The Zune might have joined the portable media player game too late to ever really be competition for the iPod, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t pick up some devoted …read more Continue reading Bringing Bluetooth to the Zune
Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a decade or so, there was a time when Texas Instruments …read more Continue reading UNIX for a Legacy TI
As the old saying goes, when the only tool you have is a 6 DOF industrial robotic arm, every problem looks like an opportunity to make it serve up adult …read more Continue reading Robot Bartender Is The Life of the Party
Although ham radio offers a wide array of bands to transmit on, not to mention plenty of modes to communicate with, not everyone wants or needs to use all of …read more Continue reading A Ham-Adjacent Portable Radio Repeater