Collaborate Disseminate
Modern cinema relies very heavily on quadrotor drones, because they make for very smooth, very easy to position platforms. From slow pans to chase shots, drones are great– if your …read more Continue reading Overpowered RC car + Gimbal Cam = The Greatest Chase Vehicle We’ve Ever Seen
You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects …read more Continue reading Die Casting Comes Home
If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted …read more Continue reading C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For
This is one of those hacks that makes you stop in your tracks and say, “wait, you can do that!?” — before realizing, oh, yes, of course you can do …read more Continue reading Pi 5 Becomes ALSA-Compatible TOSLINK Sound Card
In some parts of Canada, you’ll rarely hear someone use the phrase “whatever paddles your canoe” instead of the more usual “whatever floats your boat”– and apparently, at least for …read more Continue reading It’s Full Steam Ahead for This Motorized Canoe
On the one hand, the original Apple II has been copied over and over again since at least the early 80s, so maybe this hack is old hat to the …read more Continue reading SB Mini II is a Homebrew Apple II Clone
Spud guns are a staple of summertime fun for the maker set, especially on the Eagleland side of the pond, combining as they do two of our favourite things: firearms …read more Continue reading Belt Fed Potato Cannon Spits Spuds
While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it was very rarely used as a …read more Continue reading The Bit79 was a Famicom clone that took the “Family Computer” Name Seriously
Nobody wants to breathe solder fumes; that’s a given. For most of us, an industrial-looking fan-and-filter made in China and picked up cheap feels like more than enough to keep …read more Continue reading Extract Fumes in Midcentury Style With Nixie Tubes and Military Surplus
Optical media is great — it’s pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if well cared for. If not well cared for, well, it’s only relatively durable, and we’ve …read more Continue reading Disk Polishing Goes Open Source