Collaborate Disseminate
Game companies might not like physical media much anymore, but gamers sure do. There’s nothing like pawing over your collection to find what to play, and inserting a cartridge with …read more Continue reading Old SSDs Find New Life as Game Cartridges
These days, it is easy to think you always have access to the Internet. But some wonder if — in spite of its ARPANET, nuclear-war-planning heritage — you can actually …read more Continue reading Could Reticulum Power a Post-Internet Network?
Building a PC used to be a fun adventure — what’s the latest, what’s the greatest, what can I afford? Well, that last question seems to have taken over and …read more Continue reading Recycling Laptops and iMacs Makes PC Building Fun and Affordable Again
In the old days, you either swore by BASIC or you swore at it — but just about everybody got their start on the educational language. Nowadays, the kids are …read more Continue reading QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer
[Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a hacker to be in that position, there …read more Continue reading Open-Source Mid-Drive e-Bike Motor Has Lots of Promise, and Hyphens
Sometimes you see a project and immediately, before going into the details, your mind throws up the old refrain: “coulda used a 555” — well, [Hulk] actually agrees when it …read more Continue reading ESP32-driven Roulette Wheel Could Have Used a 555, but That Didn’t have WiFi
There’s an interesting thing about retrocomputing — the moment that you realize your 25-year-old machine can do almost everything your average person uses a computer for. The problem is that the …read more Continue reading MacSurf Hits 2.0 To Bring PowerPCs back Online
Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including this one …read more Continue reading White Rails are the Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed
Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300 MB CSS style sheet, that runs not …read more Continue reading DOOM runs (slowly) in a IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet
Do you remember AIM? It may suprize you to hear that AOL’s instant messanger was actually supported all the way up to 2017– two years after Discord launched. Unlike Discord, …read more Continue reading AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord