Collaborate Disseminate
Telephony is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, being able to talk to people in far off places is kind of neat, at least in theory. …read more Continue reading Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth on Android Phones
Bluetooth is a short-range protocol that’s great for peripherals and finding your keys, but it’s limited range is mainly a product of how it’s usually implemented. A recent video from …read more Continue reading Pushing Bluetooth out to 12 Kilometers
There are two kinds of cyberdeck: the kind someone makes on a lark and operates purely on ‘rule of cool’, and the kind designed to do practical work. The Slurptop …read more Continue reading The Slurptop is Both Drool Worthy and Practical
There’s just something about backing way, way off the cutting edge to rediscover the simpler joys of yesteryear. We’ve got a contest about to wrap up along those lines, and …read more Continue reading Watch VCF Southwest in Retrotastic SGI-Edited Footage
Technically, what [Macona] built with a surplus Solar T-62 turbine is not a dune buggy, but a sand rail, but it does have the delightfully rare combination of electric and …read more Continue reading When You Can’t Pick Between Electric and Jet Power, This Buggy Has You Covered
If there’s one thing everyone hated about Windows 98, was the lack of USB4.0 support. We remember vividly the cries of anguish at the launch party when we found out …read more Continue reading Thunderbolt Strikes Windows98
If you want to play old Commodore games, there are C-64 emulators available for just about any platform– but most of them are so high level, they’re really meant for …read more Continue reading C64 Hardware Simulator Isn’t (Just) For Playing Around
Vampires aren’t as common as they once were, but in most places they aren’t fully protected and it’s still possible to get a tag for legal hunting come October — …read more Continue reading Hand-Machined Stake Sharpener Just in Time for Dracula Season
Slow refresh, ghosting and low-contrast — wait, are we talking about passive matrix LCDs, or e-paper displays? That might be why e-paper Game Boy emulators are a thing: the limitations …read more Continue reading Tiny e-Paper Display Delivers 30 FPS of Game Boy Fun
We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are, and two don’t count. Yes, there’s a Raspberry Pi Pico, and a pair of …read more Continue reading 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: USBSID-Pico has Two SIDs, Many Inputs