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[AmiCube] has announced their new PiStorm68K special edition MiniMig accelerator board. This board was developed to replace the 68000 CPU in a MiniMig — a recreation of the original Amiga …read more Continue reading PiStorm68K Offers Supercharged Retro Amiga Experience
Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain …read more Continue reading Popular Science Experiments in Sound During the 19th-Century
In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready to hang a computer screen …read more Continue reading Are We Ready for AR Smart Glasses Yet?
[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some …read more Continue reading Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again
[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in 1958. Its troubled and …read more Continue reading The Setun Was a Ternary Computer from the USSR in 1958
We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train Station Clock which has been refurbished after being picked …read more Continue reading Tick, Tock, Train Station Clock
[Andrew Menadue] wrote in to let us know about the TULIP-DevBoard and TULIP-Module being developed on GitHub. TULIP is short for “The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral” and it’s an everything expansion …read more Continue reading TULIP: The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral for the HP-41 Handheld Calculator
Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and …read more Continue reading Retro Semiconductors: The Silicon Controlled Rectifier
Recently, [Edward Schmitz] wrote in to let us know about his Hackaday.io project: SigCore UC: An Open-Source Universal I/O Controller With Relays, Analog I/O, and Modbus for the Raspberry Pi. …read more Continue reading SigCore UC: An Open-Source Universal I/O Controller for the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a fun build from [RootSaid] that is suitable for people just getting started with microcontrollers and robotics — an Arduino-controlled two-wheeled robot. The video assumes you already have one …read more Continue reading Two-Wheeled Arduino Robot Project for Beginners