Collaborate Disseminate
A few decades ago, palmtop computers were mostly based on MS-DOS, and while many users tried to mimic the UNIX experience, the results were mixed. Fast forward to the present …read more Continue reading HPi95LX Puts Linux in your Palm
Earlier this Fall, a Samsung warehouse in South Africa was robbed and the thieves got away with a quantity of smart televisions. Samsung proceeded to implement a little-known feature called …read more Continue reading Samsung Bricks Smart TVs
If you can’t imagine writing a letter on a typewriter and putting it in a mailbox, then you take computers for granted. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Office Equipment from the 1940s
Engineering student and DIY enthusiast [Xasin] thought that the usual ways of controlling various home devices, such as phone apps and web interfaces, were too boring. Instead, he developed the …read more Continue reading Star Trek Tap Controller, Take Two
Have you ever wondered if there is a correlation between a computer’s energy consumption and the choice of programming languages? Well, a group Portuguese university researchers did and set out …read more Continue reading C is the Greenest Programming Language
There was a bit of excitement recently at the Naro Space Center on Outer Naro Island, just off the southern coast of the Korea Peninsula. The domestically developed South Korean Nuri …read more Continue reading South Korean KSLV-2 Nuri Rocket Almost Orbits
We like retro-computing and we like open source standards that allow easy project sharing. Vintage DEC computer enthusiast [Jay Logue] combines both of these in his recent project on GitHub, where …read more Continue reading Flip-Chip KiCad Templates
You’ve probably encountered this before — you have a circuit board that is poorly documented, and want to know the part number of a tiny SMD chip. Retro computer enthusiast …read more Continue reading Decoding SMD Part Markings
Finnish software engineer [Toni] is on a quest to modernize his 1991 house, and his latest project was to automate the window blinds and control them using Home Assistant. Unless …read more Continue reading Automated Window Blinds Using MQTT and Home Assistant
You have to really like slide rules to build your own, including the necessary artwork. Apparently [Dylan Thinnes] is a big fan, based on this project he began working on …read more Continue reading Design and Build Your Own Circular Slide Rule