Collaborate Disseminate
There’s something delightfully sci-fi about any kind of volumetric display. Sure, you know it’s not really a hologram, and Princess Leia isn’t about to pop out and tell you you’re …read more Continue reading Volumetric Display Takes a Straight Forward (and Backward) Approach
Do you have a classic Amiga computer? Do you want to search the web with iBrowse, but keep running into all that pesky modern HTML5 and HTTPS? In that case, …read more Continue reading There’s Nothing Boring About Web Search on Retro Amigas
Has anyone noticed that news stories have gotten shorter and pithier over the past few decades, sometimes seeming like summaries of what you used to peruse? In spite of that, …read more Continue reading Why You Shouldn’t Trade Walter Cronkite for an LLM
We are absurdly spoiled these days by our microcontrollers. Take the CH32V00X family– they’ve been immortalized by meme as “the ten cent micro” but with a clock speed of 48MHz …read more Continue reading 10 Cent Microcontroller Makes Tracker Music
If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was at least one taker …read more Continue reading Web Development in… Pascal?
It’s a truism that a computer must boot before it begins to operate. Nowadays that bootstrapping process is automatic, but in the case of the very first home computers, it …read more Continue reading Give ATMega88 the Boot With This Retro Front Panel
Connectors are wonderful and terrible things. Wonderful, in that splicing wires every time you need to disassemble something is really, really annoying. Terrible in that it can be just such …read more Continue reading Avoid Missed Connections with The Connectorbook’s Web Tool
One of the hardest parts of a project — assuming it makes it that far — is finishing it up in an aesthetically pleasing manner. As they say, the devil …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Nail Your Next Decal
LED billboards are cyberpunk-dystopian enough for most, but it can get worse. For example, this project by [Concept Crafted Creations] that takes the whole concept and takes it airborn (literally) …read more Continue reading POV Globe Takes to the Skies
In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth mining– we started talking about hydrothermal fluid deposits. Hydrothermal …read more Continue reading Ore Formation: Return of the Revenge of the Fluids