Collaborate Disseminate
For RC aircraft there are generally legal restrictions that require the craft to stay within line of sight of the operator, but an RC boat or car can in theory …read more Continue reading Solar-Powered RC Boat Has Unlimited Range
Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend to be fairly fixable, assuming spare parts are available and there hasn’t been too much …read more Continue reading Restoring a Vintage Computer And Its Plotter
There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the RISC side citing performance per watt and some on the CISC …read more Continue reading Computer Has One Instruction, Many Transistors
Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a …read more Continue reading A Breadboard Computer in Three Chips
The legendary 6502 microprocessor recently turned 50 years old, and to celebrate this venerable chip which brought affordable computing and video gaming to the masses [AndersBNielsen] decided to put one …read more Continue reading 6502 Puts on an SDR Hat
One of the biggest downsides of installing solar panels on a rooftop is that maintenance of the actual roof structure becomes much more difficult with solar panels in the way. …read more Continue reading Multi-Use Roof Eliminates Roof
If you’ve never used a PDP-11 before it’s probably because you simply weren’t around in the 70s and 80s. Although they started as expensive machines only in research labs and …read more Continue reading FPGA Brings UNIX v1 to the DEC J-11
As we all look across a sea of lifeless, nearly identically-styled consumer goods, a few of us have become nostalgic for a time when products like stereo equipment, phones, appliances, …read more Continue reading NFC Hidden In Floppy Disk For Retro-Themed PC
For certain situations, older hardware is preferred or even needed to accomplish a task. This is common in industrial applications where old machinery might not be supported by modern hardware …read more Continue reading Receiving Radio Signals from Space Like It’s 1994
Before the days of mobile broadband, and before broadband itself even, there was a time where Internet access was provided by phone lines. To get onto a BBS or chat …read more Continue reading Acoustic Coupling Like it’s 1985