Collaborate Disseminate
[George Stagg] recently found himself stung by the burden of free time while in lockdown. Needing a project to keep him occupied, he decided to upgrade his 90s Casio CFX-9850G …read more Continue reading Old Casio Calculator Learns New Tricks
If you’re looking to add a little more sci-fi authenticity to your gaming setup, you could do much worse than this functional control lever replica that [ZapWizard] has entered into …read more Continue reading Razor Crest Control Lever For The Grogu In Your Life
Restoring a vintage radio receiver has the potential to be a fun weekend project, but it pays to know what you’re up against. Especially in the case of vacuum tube …read more Continue reading Busted 1960s Vacuum Tube Radio Sings Again
The wildly successful PDP-11 minicomputer was a major influence on the evolution of computing throughout the 1970s. While fondly remembered in modern day emulation, there’s nothing like booting up the …read more Continue reading PDP-11/34 Restoration And The Virtue Of Persistence
The retrocomputing community are experts at keeping vintage Apple iron running, but if you’re looking for a simpler way to pay homage to the original Mac, check out this Raspberry …read more Continue reading ‘Desk Accessory’ Pays Homage To Macintosh
[David Lovett] aka Usagi Electric has spent the last several months dissecting a Centurion minicomputer from 1980. His latest update reveals that the restoration has hit several snags, and bootstrapping …read more Continue reading Minicomputer Restoration Hanging In The Balance
Flicking a circuit breaker to power cycle hundreds of desktop computers inside interactive museum exhibits is hardly ideal. Computers tend to get cranky when improperly shutdown, and there’s an non-zero …read more Continue reading Power Cycling Museum Computers On The Cheap
Remotely accessing your computer’s desktop, files and network from anywhere has enabled remote working (i.e. ‘work from home’) for the last several decades. Modern PCs have more than enough computational …read more Continue reading Remote Desktop Fun For Your Old Macintosh
As a child, [David Windestal] already knew that a belt sander was the perfect motor for a banging radio-controlled car. Many years later, the realization of that dream is everything …read more Continue reading Boring Belt Sander Is RC Racer In Disguise
Some of the most popular vintage computers are now more than forty years old, and their memory just ain’t how it used to be. Identifying bad memory chips can quickly …read more Continue reading Simple DRAM Tester Built With Spare Parts