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Put Your Serial Port on the Web

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A small brown PCB with various components on it. There is a headphone cable and DC barrel connector cable coming out of it.

Today, everything from your computer to your dryer has wireless communications built in, but devices weren’t always so unencumbered by wires. What to do when you have a legacy serial …read more Continue reading Put Your Serial Port on the Web→

MycelioTronics: Biodegradable Electronics Substrates from Fungi

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A notated illustration showing how a mycelial network may be functionalized as a PCB substrate. The process starts with Cu vapor deposition onto the network followed by Au either by more vapor deposition or electrodeposition. Traces are then cut via laser ablation.

E-waste is one of the main unfortunate consequences of the widespread adoption of electronic devices, and there are various efforts to stem the flow of this pernicious trash. One new …read more Continue reading MycelioTronics: Biodegradable Electronics Substrates from Fungi→

A Nomadic Chair

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Navarre Bartz

A simple wooden chair with mint metallic connectors at the corners sits next to a pile of wooden pieces wrapped in leather and straps to form a backpack.

There’s no shortage of different types of folding or portable chairs, but designer [Jorge Penadés] built a backpack chair that will go the long haul. Furniture that assembles without screws …read more Continue reading A Nomadic Chair→

Standalone Touch ID for Your Desktop Mac

Posted on December 26, 2022 by Navarre Bartz

A beige keyboard with blue and grey keys sits on a colorful deskmat atop a wooden desk. A small box with a round Touch ID button sits next to the keyboard.

With the proliferation of biometric access to mobile devices, entering a password on your desktop can feel so passé. [Snazzy Labs] decided to fix this problem for his Mac by …read more Continue reading Standalone Touch ID for Your Desktop Mac→

Spotify Player Brings Back Physical Media

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Navarre Bartz

A radio with a white front grate and wood edges sits on a grey surface. Next to the radio are small white disks with colorful edges reminicient of microdisc-sized records. A yellow-ringed disk sits on the radio. The handwritten title says, "Summer of 2011; Holidays in Barcelona"

Digital music has made keeping all your tunes with you a lot more convenient, but have we lost something with dematerialization? [Jordi Parra] felt that there was something lacking with …read more Continue reading Spotify Player Brings Back Physical Media→

An (Almost) Single-Chip Apple IIe

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Navarre Bartz

Three purple OshPark boards and a white bread board all attached using a number of jumper wires on a grey cutting mat.

The Apple II is one of the most iconic microcomputers, and [James Lewis] decided to use the Mega-II “Apple IIe on a chip” from an Apple IIgs to build a …read more Continue reading An (Almost) Single-Chip Apple IIe→

What Happens when Implants Become Abandonware?

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Navarre Bartz

A scan (x-ray?) of a human skull. Electrodes trace around the skull and are attached to the brain. These implants are for reducing Parkinson's tremors.

You’ve probably had a company not support one of your devices as long as you’d like, whether it was a smart speaker or a phone, but what happens if you …read more Continue reading What Happens when Implants Become Abandonware?→

Travel Uke from a Fallen Tree

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Navarre Bartz

A walnut ukulele with an aluminum piece routing strings at it's base which is facing the camera. The neck of the instrument extends away from the viewer and is held at an angle by a hand with striped sheets in the background.

When faced with what to build from the trimmings of the walnut tree in her yard, [Amy Quian] decided to build a headless travel ukulele. [via MAKE:] Headless instruments relocate …read more Continue reading Travel Uke from a Fallen Tree→

Clean Slate is a Vintage Amplifier-Inspired PC

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Navarre Bartz

An art deco style computer made of several grey/blue boxes with silver grates on top of a maple platform.

Hacks that bring a vintage flair to modern electronics never get old, and [Jeffrey Stephenson] delivers with his Project Clean Slate inspired by vintage tube amps. Thinking outside the traditional …read more Continue reading Clean Slate is a Vintage Amplifier-Inspired PC→

Mechanical Keyboard with a Framework Inside

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Navarre Bartz

A grey keyboard with orange and dark grey accents is angled away from the camera. The keys nearby are clearly distinguishable in the foreground but blurry toward the back/right. The keyboard is quite thick as it also contains a computer motherboard.

Like the Commodore 64 and other keyboard computers of yore, the [Elevated Systems]’s CJ64 fits all of its processing and I/O into a single keyboard-shaped package. This iteration of the …read more Continue reading Mechanical Keyboard with a Framework Inside→