Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes, you build a thing because you need a thing. Sometimes, you do it just to see if you can. This project is in category two: [polymatt] didn’t need to …read more Continue reading Don’t say this DIY Diskette was a Flop
Having owned an Amiga microcomputer is apparently a little bit like having shaken hands with Shoggoth: no one can escape unchanged from the experience. Thirty-two years on, [Neil] at The …read more Continue reading Amiga Programming in 2025 with AmiBlitz
There was a time when making a cloud chamber with dry ice and alcohol was one of those ‘rite of passage’ type science projects every nerdy child did. That time …read more Continue reading Desk Top Peltier-Powered Cloud Chamber Uses Desktop Parts
Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. [Erich Styger] has, though with V5 of …read more Continue reading Clock of Clocks Expands, Goes Digital
The Texas Instruments TP4056 is the default charge-controller chip for any maker or hacker working with lithium batteries. And why not? You can get perfectly-functional knockoffs on handy breakout boards …read more Continue reading Is It Time To Retire the TP4056?
No, of course not. Per Betteridge’s law, that’s the answer to any headline with a question mark. On the other hand, while a thermal printer might not cure ADHD, it …read more Continue reading Can a Thermal Printer Cure ADHD?
Entries keep ticking in for the One Hertz Challenge, some more practical than others. [Pierre-Loup M.]’s One Hertz Sculpture has no pretensions of being anything but pretty, but we can …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: Shoulda Put a Ring Oscillator On It
If you were at OpenSauce, you may have seen new Youtuber [Sahko] waltzing about with a retrofuturistic peice of jewelery that revealed itself as a very cool watch. If you …read more Continue reading Flex PCB Underlies the Watch of the Future
Three-axis 3D printing has been with us long enough that everybody knows the limitations, but so far, adding extra axes has been very much a niche endeavor. [Daniel] at Fractal …read more Continue reading Open Source 5-Axis Printer Has Its Own Slicer
Keeping retrocomputers going can be tricky enough, but when you’re talking retro laptops, the battery packs add an extra challenge. While one could simply live without the battery, that’s not …read more Continue reading Rebuilt Batteries for the Cutest Clamshell at the Cafe