Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a thing that people who grew up on farms all share: a connection with food production that isn’t some mystical rose-tinted woo from a TV chef, but instead a …read more Continue reading Know Your Food: Cheesemaking
The NES was Nintendo’s smash hit console of the 1980s, the international version of their Japanese Famicom system. It wasn’t a particularly complex device, so it was the subject of …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering A Rock Bottom NES Clone
When we think of CRT camera viewfinders, most of us probably imagine the tiny CRTs you’d find in a 1980s camcorder. They’re super cute and a load of fun to …read more Continue reading A Camera Viewfinder Makes A Great TV
The monitors used on older computers are now becoming difficult to find, as we doubt anything for MDA, CGA, Hercules, or EGA has been manufactured in decades. Even VGA, though …read more Continue reading Modern Graphics Via DisplayLink For Your ISA-Era PC
The value of a mirror is in its clarity. If the reflection is cast by [danicakostic17]’s Uncooperative Mirror though, you’ll find anything but. It’s described as a useless machine, because …read more Continue reading The Uncooperative Mirror Will Not Help You
Ever since the first Linux capable single-board computers came out, there have been projects turning them into handhelds. The Raspberry Pi Zero and in particular the Compute Modules are ideally …read more Continue reading It’s Another Pi Handheld. But it’s a Really Good One
When using older computers there comes a point at which modern software drops support, as for example is happening with builds for Windows XP. Every now and then though, along …read more Continue reading A Modern Web Browser For Classic Mac OS
The use of modern microcontrollers as add-on peripherals for 1980s home computers has delivered significant benefits and capabilities unimaginable in the days when those machines were new. A great example …read more Continue reading An Atic Atac Minimap For The ZX Spectrum
It’s become a familiar theme over the last couple of decades — hardware is rendered useless when its manufacturer pulls the cloud service on which it depends. This is particularly …read more Continue reading Bring Back Your Bose with an ESP32
While most of us don’t design aircraft or racing cars, it’s likely that we’re still fascinated by some of the aerodynamic studies behind them. But a full-sized wind tunnel is …read more Continue reading See Aerodynamics in Action with a Desktop Wind Tunnel