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Every once in a while we get wind of a project that we’re reluctant to write up for the simple reason that it looks too good to be true. Not …read more Continue reading Over-the-Top Programmable Resistor Looks the Part and Performs
For prototype electronics projects, most of us have a pile of resistors of various values stored somewhere on our tool bench. There are different methods of organizing them for easy …read more Continue reading Programmable Resistance Box
Back in the day, your choice of calculator said a lot about your chops, and nothing made a stronger statement than the legendary Hewlett-Packard Voyager series of programmable calculators. From …read more Continue reading Calculate Like It’s 1989 With This HP15C Emulator
Remember the Psion Organiser? If you do, chances are you were an early adopter, as the 8-bit pocket computer had its heyday in the mid-1980s. Things have come a long …read more Continue reading Proto-PDA Regains Its Memory with the Help of a Raspberry Pi Pico
The 68000 chip was ubiquitous in the computing world well past its heyday in the 1980s. It was used as the basis for many PCs and video game consoles, and …read more Continue reading Build A Barebones 68000
Say what you want about Soviet technology, but you’ve got to admit there was a certain style to Cold War-era electronics. Things were perhaps not as streamlined and sleek as …read more Continue reading Soviet Scientific Calculator Gives Up Its Cold War-Era Secrets
Reddit user [duzitbetter] showed off their design for a 3D-printed programmable macro keyboard that offers a different take on what can be thought of as a sort of 3D-printed PCB. The design is called the Bloko 9 and uses the …read more
Continue reading 3D-Printed Macro Pad Ditches the PCB With Slick Wiring Guides
Getting into e-biking is a great hobby. It can get people on bikes who might otherwise not be physically able to ride, it can speed up commute times, and it can even make hauling lots of stuff possible and easy, …read more
Some projects are a rite of passage within their respected fields. For computer science, building one’s own computer from scratch is certainly among those projects. Of course, we’re not talking about buying components online and snapping together a modern x86 machine. We mean building something closer to a fully-programmable 8-bit …read more
‘Tis the season for dropping hints on what new doodads would make a hacker happy, and we have to admit to doing a little virtual window shopping ourselves. And as a decent bench power supply is on our list, it was no surprise to see videos reviews that the hive …read more
Continue reading Turning a Bad Bench Supply into a Better Bench Supply