Collaborate Disseminate
Once upon a time, owning a calculator watch was the epitome of cool. Well, for a very specific subset of the population with our own definition of “cool” anyway. The …read more Continue reading Wear this RISC V, RPN Calculator Watch for Maximum Nerd Cred
There’s a tactile joy to the humble 3.5″ floppy that no USB stick will ever match. It’s not just the way they thunk into place in a well-made drive, the …read more Continue reading Diskette Game Floppy Flopper is Certainly no Flop
When the iconic “Boing Ball” first debuted 40 years ago, it was a wonder to behold. There was nothing like it in the home compuing world upto that time, and …read more Continue reading Amiga? Arduino? AMeagerBall Gets the Uno Bouncing
Whenever there’s a superlative involved, you know that degree of optimization has to leave something else on the table. In the case of [PegorK]’s f32, the smallest ESP32 dev board …read more Continue reading Possibly-Smallest ESP32 Board Uses Smallest-Footprint Parts
The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure, you can still get a chargers for the AAs in …read more Continue reading Charge NiMH Batteries with Style, Panache and an RP2040
The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure, you can still get a chargers for the AAs in …read more Continue reading Charge NiMH Batteries with Style, Panache and an RP2040
I’m sitting in front of an old Sayno Plasma TV as I write this on my media PC. It’s not a productivity machine, by any means, but the screen has …read more Continue reading In Praise of Plasma TVs
Though mobile devices and Apple Silicon have seen ARM-64 explode across the world, there’s still decent odds you’re reading this on a device with an x86 processor — the direct …read more Continue reading Supersized Calculator Brings the Whole Intel 4000 Gang Together
Just about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor module. Given the power of microcontrollers these days, it was only a matter of …read more Continue reading The Simplest Ultrasound Sensor Module, Minus the Module
Amiga and Atari fans used to lord over their Apple-eating brethren the fact that Cupertino never moved to the most advanced 68k processors — so for a while, thanks to …read more Continue reading The Fastest (68k) Macintosh Might Not Be an Amiga Anymore