Collaborate Disseminate
Ah, the 1990s. It was a simpler time, when the web was going to be democratic and decentralised, you could connect your Windows 95 PC to the internet without worrying …read more Continue reading Magic Eye Images In Your Spreadsheet
For most people, a battery pack that’s misbehaving simply means it’s time to get a new battery. But when the battery in their ThinkPad wasn’t able to muster up more …read more Continue reading Sniffing Around Inside a ThinkPad Battery
[Sebastian Lederer] has created Tridora: an unusual stack-based CPU core intended for FPGA deployment, co-developed with its own Pascal compiler. The 32-bit word machine is unusual in that it has …read more Continue reading Tridora: A Full-Custom CPU Designed For Pascal
We’ve seen a few retro products using core rope memory, such as telephone autodiallers. Obviously, we’ve covered the Apollo program computers, but we don’t think we’ve seen a complete and …read more Continue reading DIY Core Rope Memory Z80 Demonstrator Generating a Fibonacci Sequence
ARM single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi are great for some applications — if you need something that’s energy efficient or can fit into a tight space, they’re tough to …read more Continue reading Printed Rack Holds Pair of LattePandas In Style
The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become …read more Continue reading The Turing Machine Made Real, In LEGO
Some hackers have the skills to help us find noteworthy lessons in even the most basic of repairs. For instance, is your computer failing to boot? Guess what, it could …read more Continue reading Some SPI Flash Chip Nuances Worth Learning
Sometimes you see something super cool and think of how it would be really neat if applied in a totally different context. [MXC Builds] saw an awesome lamp from [karacreates], …read more Continue reading A Beautiful Lamp-Inspired PC Case
As the Commodore 64 ages, it seems to be taking on a second life. Case in point: Vision BASIC is a customized, special version of the BASIC programming language with …read more Continue reading New Release of Vision Basic: Hot New Features!
IBM got their PCs and PS/2 computers into schools in the 1980s and 1990s. We fondly remember educational games like Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain. However, IBM had been trying to …read more Continue reading IBM’s 1969 Educational Computing