Collaborate Disseminate
If you’re into Macs, you’ll always remember your first. Maybe it was the revolutionary classic of 1984 fame, perhaps it was the adorable G3 iMac in 1998, or even a …read more Continue reading An Emulated Stroll Down Macintosh Memory Lane
The volume slider on our virtual desktops is a skeuomorphic callback to the volume sliders on professional audio equipment on actual, physical desktops. [Maker Vibe] decided that this skeuomorphism was …read more Continue reading Volume Controller Rejects Skeumorphism, Embraces the Physical
Some people slander retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children involved …read more Continue reading Programming Like It’s 1986, For Fun and Zero Profit
Yes, you read that right– not benchy, but beanie, as in the hat. A toque, for those of us under the Maple Leaf. It’s not 3D printed, either, except perhaps …read more Continue reading Five-minute(ish) Beanie is the Fastest We’ve Seen Yet
In the comments of a recent article, the question came up as to where to find projects from the really smart kids the greybeards remember being in the 70s. In …read more Continue reading Touch Lamp Tracks ISS with Style
Ever have one of those ideas that’s just so silly, you just need to run with it? [Chris] from Sound Workshop ran into that when he had the idea that …read more Continue reading When is a synth a woodwind? When it’s a Pneumatone
Photography is great, but sometimes it can get boring just reusing the same wavelengths over and over again. There are other options, though and when [Malcolm Wilson] decided he wanted …read more Continue reading IR Point and Shoot Has a Raspberry Heart in a 35mm Body
Aside from GPUs, you don’t hear much about co-processors these days. [bitluni] perhaps missed those days, because he found a way to squeeze a 160 core RISC V supercluster onto …read more Continue reading 160-core RISC V Board is the m.2 CoProcessor You Didn’t know you needed
These are tough times for American hackers, and rife with uncertainty. Trade wars are on, off, on again– who can keep track? If you’re used to getting everything from China, …read more Continue reading Does Made-in-America Make Sense for PCB Prototyping?
Running DOOM on ARM? Old hat. Running Doom (2016) on an ARM SBC? Well, that’s a bit more interesting, and [Interfacing Linux] shows us how with this handy guide, and …read more Continue reading Daisy chain of hacks lets new Arm board run Doom