Collaborate Disseminate
Do you remember, some years ago, when that brand-new 8086-based laptop hit the shelves? Great for PC lovers, but not so fun for those on the fruitier side of the …read more Continue reading When is an Apple Laptop Not a Macbook? When it’s an Apple II
OK, every operating system is a bit of a stretch — Windows Vista notably didn’t make the cut — but [Andrew]’s Virtual OS museum has a good claim to being …read more Continue reading Virtual Museum Hosts Every OS You Haven’t Heard Of
In the long ago, pre-internet days when your clock project wasn’t an ESP32 getting its timing via NTP over WiFi, it was still possible to build a wirelessly-updating clock. All …read more Continue reading So Long, CHU, and Thanks for All the Time Signals
There is a drawing of a bicycle in one of Leonarda DaVinci‘s sketchbooks– except it wasn’t drawn by DaVinci, and dates long after his death, so we can’t say the …read more Continue reading A Bicycle Built on an Italian Renaissance Tech Base
The Commodore 64 has, by modern standards, the interesting power requirement of needing both 5 VDC and 9 VAC. Traditionally, one would use an iron-core transformer to step-down the wall …read more Continue reading Tiny C64 PSU Rejects Tradition, Embraces USB
Unless you’ve managed to avoid touching a Windows computer until after the Windows XP era, it’s pretty good odds you’ve played Space Cadet Pinball. Some of you may have even …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Space Cadet Pinball Into the Real World
Mobile devices generally have one Achilles’ heel when it comes to computing power: thermal throttling. Outside of bulky desktop and server systems, chips have to run at a fraction of …read more Continue reading Unlocking the True Power of a MacBook Neo By Cooling It
Given that some of the more famous demos were by Honda and Tesla, you might be forgiven for thinking you need pockets as deep as a car company to get …read more Continue reading Asimov is an Open Source Humanoid Robot For the Rest of Us
While a punch card is perhaps the lowest-density storage medium available, it has some distinct advantages. As [Bitroller] points out in the write-up of his punch card project, if he …read more Continue reading 21st Century Punch Cards are 3D Printed and Read By OpenCV
Aside from nostalgia, people claim to like CRTs because they’re apprehendable– the technology just makes more sense than the arcane wibbly-wobbly solid-state madness going on inside the driver chip of …read more Continue reading CRTs Are Too Mainstream, So Game on a Mechanical TV Instead