Collaborate Disseminate
[Niklas Roy] obviously had a great time building this generative art cabinet that puts you in the role of the curator – ever-changing images show on the screen, but it’s …read more Continue reading Generative Art Machine Does it One Euro at a Time
It’s something of a surprise, should you own a CRT TV to go with your retrocomputers, when you use it to view a film or a TV show. The resolution …read more Continue reading A TV With Contrast You Haven’t Seen For Years
Coming straight to the point: [Ron Hinton] is significantly braver than we are. Or maybe he was just in a worse situation. His historic Acer K385s laptop suffered what we …read more Continue reading LCD Stackup Repair: Not For the Faint of Heart
These days, adding a little LCD or OLED to your project is so cheap and easy that you can do it on a whim. Even if your original idea didn’t …read more Continue reading A Web-Based Graphics Editor For Tiny Screens
When it comes to hacking niches, breathing new life into vintage devices is always an exciting challenge. [t0mg]’s recent project exemplifies this with his 1978 Sony FX-300 ‘Jackal’ radio. He’d …read more Continue reading Packing Even More Features Into a Classic Radio
Sometimes, all it takes is looking at an existing piece of tech in a new way to come up with something unique. That’s the whole idea behind FallingWater, a gorgeous …read more Continue reading FallingWater Clock Puts New Spin on a Common LCD
[CNLohr] has been tinkering with some fun parts of late. He’d found out that ordinary LCD screens could be used as simple touch sensors, and he had to try it …read more Continue reading An LCD, Touch Sensor, USB-C, And A Microcontroller for a Buck
Over the decades the technology behind flat panel displays has continuously evolved, and we’ve seen many of them come and go. Among the popular ones there are a few that …read more Continue reading Have You Heard Of The Liquid Powder Display?
Unlike the today’s consumer computer market, the 1980s were the wild west in comparison. There were all kinds of different, incompatible operating systems, hardware, and programs, all competing against one …read more Continue reading It’s Spreadsheets All The Way Down for This 80s Handheld
If you really want to concentrate on your writing, you probably shouldn’t be using a computer that’s connected to the highly distracting internet or that’s always sending you email alerts. That’s where the BYOK comes in, as it doesn’t let you do anythi… Continue reading Simple li’l screen pairs with your keyboard to minimize distractions