Collaborate Disseminate
Navigation is easy these days, as we’ve entire complex computerized mapping systems and radio-based positioning systems to find ourselves anywhere on Earth. It might seem simple to use GPS these …read more Continue reading The Sextant: Navigating The Old Way
Batteries have a habit of quietly getting worse. Anyone who has nursed an old smartphone through its final years knows the routine—it leaves the house at 100% and is begging …read more Continue reading EV Batteries Are Proving Hardier Than Expected
Folding wings have a long history in aviation. Particularly in the military world, where the ability to fit more fighting planes on a boat made a very real difference to …read more Continue reading Folding Wings Could Be The Future For Air Travel
If you haven’t heard of Static Radio, it’s basically an online radio station made up of podcast content. [Brendan Fitzpatrick] decided to take an old 2009 Chumby One and turn …read more Continue reading Static Radio For The Chumby One
Do you have old landline phones laying around the house, with touchtone buttons or rotary dials? Perhaps you’d like to do something with them! [Scott Dylewski] has built hardware to …read more Continue reading A Hackable Analog Phone System
When Stranger Things came out all those years ago, one image left an indelible mark on pop culture. A set of Christmas lights, lined up with letters of the alphabet, such …read more Continue reading Building The Stranger Things Lights For Halloween
The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out …read more Continue reading Cheap FPGA Board Becomes Retro-Style Computer
If you wanted to make a game that ran on a commodity microcontroller, you could be forgiven for not knowing where to start. Never fear, for [Fedyfausto] has just the …read more Continue reading A Game Engine For Microcontrollers
Candles are pretty to look at, but they tend to be rather a fire risk and a negative influence on air quality, too. If you want the vibe without the …read more Continue reading An Electronic Candle You Can Set On Fire
If you’re a big retro tech fan, you might still have a floppy drive on hand, or even some sort of high-end disk imaging solution. If you’re a little less …read more Continue reading FloppoScope is a Disk Image Analyzer