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Last month Kia Motors announced a large recall due to possibly defective airbag controller units (ACU). The recall spans many models and model years — in the United States alone …read more Continue reading Kia Recalls Cars Over Airbag Controller Assembly Issue
[RetroBytes] takes us on a whirlwind tour of the history of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), its founder Ken Olsen, and during intermission builds up a working replica of the …read more Continue reading History of Digital Equipment Corp and Bonus PDP-11 Replica Build
Over on the Embedded FM podcast, [Chris] and [Elecia] just released their interview with [Reinhard Keil] of compiler fame. [Reinhard] recounts the story of Keil’s growth and how it eventually …read more Continue reading An Interview with Reinhard Keil
Microcontroller addict [Debraj] decided to make his own programmable sine wave generator, and was able to put it together for under $40 USD. Other than low-cost, his list of requirements …read more Continue reading Low-Cost, Two-Channel Scriptable Waveform Generator
When your 5-year-old laptop dies it’s usually time for a replacement. But [Andrew Menadue]’s Novena laptop is fully open-source. He has full access to all the documentation, so he decided …read more Continue reading Novena Open Source Laptop Reborn as Desktop Machine
Longtime hacker [Peter Jansen] was so impressed with a piece in The Onion from last year that he decided to build this coin-operated Texas Instruments graphing calculator console on a …read more Continue reading Coin-Operated Graphing Calculator Console
When you’re building a quick prototype or a one-off project it’s nice to be able to securely mount the various modules and development boards. Sometimes these boards have mounting holes, …read more Continue reading Simple Dev Board Module Socket
Twisting stranded wire with your fingers in preparation for tinning and/or soldering is almost a reflex for folks making electronic assemblies. But what if the wires are too close to …read more Continue reading One Tool Twists Wires, and Skewers Shish Kebabs
[Terje Io] decided to breathe new life into an old pen plotter — the CX6000 from C. Itoh, a Japanese company that made several printers for Apple in the 1980s. …read more Continue reading CX-6000 Pen Plotter Upgrade
If you keep up with various retro vacuum tube projects, you probably have run across [UsagiElectric] aka [David]’s various PCBs that he makes on his own Bridgeport EZ-Track 3-axis milling …read more Continue reading A Guide to Milling PCBs at Home