Collaborate Disseminate
Part of the magic of the movies is that the actors always know what will happen next. There never has to be a scene where [James Bond] orders wine, and …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: [Mark] Makes an Atari Cartridge
Sometimes it’s the little touches and details that make a project. That’s certainly the case with [Franklinstein]’s Super Nintendo (SNES) Cartridge Hard Drive. It might only be an enclosure for a …read more Continue reading Super NES Cartridge Pulls a Sneaky, Plays Minecraft
The price of lithium batteries has plummeted in recent years as various manufacturers scale up production and other construction and process improvements are found. This is a good thing if …read more Continue reading Harvesting Rechargeable Batteries from Single-Use Devices
If you were a kid anywhere in the last 30 years, it was nearly impossible to avoid at least some exposure to the Pokemon franchise. Whether that’s through games like …read more Continue reading Pokemon ROM Hacks Brought to the Real World
Over the summer, you might recall seeing a homebrew 6502 game console called the GameTank grace these pages. The product of [Clyde Shaffer], the system was impressively complete, very well …read more Continue reading DIY GameTank Game Console Gets Upgraded Cartridge
The big problem with Pokemon Silver is that it came in a cartridge made of only-slightly-sparkly grey plastic. [Modified] decided to fix all that, making an all-silver cartridge instead. The …read more Continue reading A Pokemon Silver Cartridge Made of Pure Silver
In August 2000, Tiger Electronics released HitClips: Music cartridges and players designed to easily share 60 second low quality Clips of a youngster’s favorite Hits. Various players were available, and …read more Continue reading HitClips Custom Cartridge Hack Will Never Give Up, Let Down, Or Turn Around
Over the years we’ve seen plenty of homebrew handheld game systems that combine an AVR microcontroller, a few buttons, and an small OLED display. We’ve even seen some of them …read more Continue reading DIY Handheld Game Puts its Brains on a Removable Cart
Has it really come to this? Are we really at the point that dishwashers have proprietary detergent cartridges that you’re locked into buying at inflated prices? Apparently so, at least …read more Continue reading Detergent DRM Defeated on Diminutive Dishwasher
For viewers of sci-fi TV and films from the 1960s onwards, the miniaturisation of computer hardware has been something of a disappointment. Yes, it’s amazing that we can get 1.21 …read more Continue reading It’s Not A Computer If It Doesn’t Have A Cartridge Slot