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A central processing unit, or CPU, is the heart of any computer system. But it’s definitely not the only part: you also need RAM, ROM and at least some peripherals …read more Continue reading Minimalist 6502 System Uses a CPU and not Much Else
When it comes to repairability of electronic devices, much depends on how helpful the original manufacturer is. Some make repairs very easy by publishing detailed service manuals and selling spare …read more Continue reading Cheap Display Fix Brings Thermal Camera Back to Life
No matter how advanced your design skills, the chances are you’ll need to spend some time chasing bugs in your boards after they come back from the assembly house. Testing …read more Continue reading Augmented Reality Workbench Helps You to Debug Your Boards
If you’re above a certain age, you probably remember the atmosphere of a pre-Powerpoint 35 mm slide show. The wobbly screen being unrolled, the darkened room, the soft hum of …read more Continue reading Digitize Your Slide Deck With This Arduino-Powered Slide Carousel
If you’ve used a corporate VPN or an online-banking system in the past fifteen years or so, chances are you’ve got a few of those little authenticator key fobs lying …read more Continue reading Generating Two-Factor Authentication Codes With a Commodore 64
Few things are more satisfying than finding an old, forgotten piece of technology somewhere and bringing it back to life. And while it’s great to see a rare sports car …read more Continue reading ColecoVision Barn Find Gets Wireless Makeover
One of the reasons the IBM PC platform became the dominant standard for desktop PCs back in the mid-1980s was its open hardware design, based around what would later be …read more Continue reading Emulate Any ISA Card With A Raspberry Pi and an FPGA
Halloween may be behind us, but we couldn’t resist showing you [Mellow]’s latest project: an automatic candy dispenser that takes the hard work out of serving trick-or-treaters. It’s a cool …read more Continue reading Automatic Candy Dispenser Takes the Hard Work out of Halloween
One of the main reasons the Commodore 64 became an icon of the 1980s was its MOS 6581 “SID” sound chip that gave it audio capabilities well beyond those of …read more Continue reading The Commodordion Turns Two C64s Into a Single Instrument
It’s a fact of life that electronic devices become obsolete after a few years. Sometimes this is because technology has moved on, but it can also happen that a perfectly …read more Continue reading Decompiling Software to Fix an Old Solar Inverter