Collaborate Disseminate
In Dune, the Fremen people of Arrakis practice an odd future hybrid religion called “zensunni.” This adds an extra layer of meaning to the title of [Mark Rehorst]’s Arrakis 3.0 sand …read more Continue reading The Zen Must Flow From Arrakis Sand Table
You know those old cliche that the younger generations have begun to cynically despise: “follow your dreams!” “You can be anything you put your mind to!” — well, perhaps they …read more Continue reading A PCB Can Be A Hydrofoil, If it Really Wants To
There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have totally taken over by now, but that’s really not true. The world of …read more Continue reading DIY Polyphonic Synth Sings in 8-Part Harmony
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of those things that sounds like it must be woo when you first hear of it. “A trickle of current that can deal …read more Continue reading DIY TENS Machine is a Pain-Relief PCB
For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the obligatory non-stop loop of “All …read more Continue reading Wiring Up The Railway, All The Live-Long Day
When people talk about the lack of a DOOM being the doom Commodore home computers, they aren’t talking about the C64, which was deep into obsolescence when demon-slaying suddenly became …read more Continue reading Commodore’s Most Popular Computer gets DOOM-style Shooter
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