Collaborate Disseminate
Handheld consoles are great for gaming on the go, but who wants to hold onto things all the time? Would it not be easier to strap the game to your …read more Continue reading Time Frog Color is a Game Boy Color on Your Wrist
Sometimes, a major discovery is exactly what you were hoping not to find. That’s the case with a team at Penn State who seem to have recently closed the door …read more Continue reading Muon Magnetic Moment Matches Model, Making Major Malaise
There’s retrogaming, and then there’s retro gaming. This next project falls into the second category, as [Callan] of 74XX Arcade Repair digs into the original Wild Gunman, first released by Nintendo …read more Continue reading Reviving Nintendo’s Early Arcade Game, Wild Gunman
VPNs, Virtual Private Networks, aren’t just a good idea to keep your data secure: for millions of people living under restrictive regimes they’re the only way to ensure full access …read more Continue reading Encrypting Encrypted Traffic To Get Around VPN Bans
LED candles are neat, but they’re very suboptimal for wish-making: you can’t blow them out. Unless you take the circuit from [Andrea Console]’s latest project that lets you do just …read more Continue reading Analog Circuitry Lets You Blow This LED Out
Perhaps at this point, getting NetBSD running on an obscure piece of hardware is a dog-bites-man story, and not worth reporting– their motto, after all, is “Of course it runs …read more Continue reading Vintage Chyron TV Hardware? Of course It Runs NetBSD
One of the more interesting categories of our ongoing Green Power Challenge is “anything but PV” — and since the radiated power of Near Field Communication is decidedly not photovoltaic, …read more Continue reading 2026 Green Power Challenge: NFC Powers Command Write and Wake of MCU
Betteridge’s law applies, but with help and guidance by a human who knows his stuff, [Ready Z80] was able to get a functioning game of Wordle out of the French-named …read more Continue reading Can Claude Write Z80 Assembly Code?
There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so …read more Continue reading What Can You Run on a 1960s Univac? Anything You’re Willing To Wait For!
There’s something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane. With no controls, it must be built very well to fly well, and with only the limited …read more Continue reading Electric Wind-Up Plane Uses Supercapacitors For Free Flight Fun