Collaborate Disseminate
When I arrived at the InfoAge Science and History Museum for this year’s Vintage Computer Festival East, I fully expected it to be a reduced event compared to last year. …read more Continue reading Vintage Computer Festival East Raises the Bar Again
It’s not every day that an open-source, portable Linux handheld computer gets announced, so I couldn’t resist placing an order for the DevTerm by ClockworkPi back when we first learned …read more Continue reading Review: DevTerm Linux Handheld Has Retro-Future Vibe
Over the years we’ve seen many small computer boards of various abilities, among them many powerful enough to be almost-useful Linux general purpose computers. We’ve also seen more than a …read more Continue reading The Fifteen Dollar Linux Computer
The Nintendo Game Boy and its many permutations represent one of the most well-known and successful gaming platforms ever produced. There was a decades-long stretch of time where the most …read more Continue reading ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Take Over Game Boy LCD
Back in the 1970s, there were a few LED-based games on the market that were quickly superseded by the rise of LCDs and other fancier technologies. However, [grossofabian] wanted to …read more Continue reading LEDBOY Is a Retro-Modern Handheld Game
Back in 2019 we first came across the mutantC, an open source 3D printable Raspberry Pi handheld created by [rahmanshaber] that took more than a little inspiration from Sony’s VAIO …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi and ESP32-S2 Team Up For mutantC_V4
The first thing we notice about this portable PS2 is that the plastic looks like a consumer-grade shell, not a 3D printed case. It comes from [GingerOfOz], who has lots …read more Continue reading PS2 Gets the Ginger Portable Treatment
The Nintendo Switch is a nifty concept, but arguably underpowered and lacking in game variety. Valve is now having a crack at the idea with the Steam Deck, a handheld gaming console that lets you play your existing Steam library on the go or on a big s… Continue reading Valve’s portable Steam Deck console takes your Steam library on the go
We’ve seen a huge influx of bespoke portable computers over the last couple of years thanks to availability of increasingly powerful single-board computers. The vast majority of these have been …read more Continue reading Handheld Hackintosh Runs Mac OS on LattePanda
This mini handheld chainsaw by [Make it Extreme] is based around an electric motor from a car door, the same ones used to raise and lower car windows. They are …read more Continue reading Electric Window Motor Becomes Mini Chainsaw