Collaborate Disseminate
[James Sharman] has built an impressive 8-bit homebrew computer. Based on TTL logic chips, it has a pipelined design which makes it capable of Commodore-level computing, but [James] hasn’t quite …read more Continue reading VGA From Scratch On A Homebrew 8-bit Computer
[Gerrit Braun], co-founder of the [Miniatur Wunderland] model railway and miniature airport attraction in Hamburg, takes his model building seriously. For more than five years, he and his team have …read more Continue reading Formula 1 TV Broadcasting in 1:87 Scale
[Miroslav Nemecek] really pushes the limits of the Pico with his PicoVGA project, which packs a surprising number of features. His main goal with this library is to run retro …read more Continue reading VGA Library for the Raspberry Pi Pico
When you want to read what is being said on a television program, movie, or video you turn on the captions. Looking under the hood to see how this text …read more Continue reading History of Closed Captions: Entering the Digital Era
[Captain Disillusion] has earned a reputation on YouTube for debunking hoaxes and spreading a healthy sense of skepticism while having some of the highest production value on the platform and …read more Continue reading Obsessively Explaining the Visual Effects in Flight of the Navigator
If you’re interested in circuit bent video but not sure where to start, the excellent guide [LoFi Future] has come up with for modifying the cheap and readily available GBS-8100 …read more Continue reading RAM Fiddling Turns VGA Converter into Video Synth
One thing about vintage computers is that they depend greatly on whether or not one can plug a compatible monitor into them. That’s what’s behind [Tube Time]’s Graphics Gremlin, a …read more Continue reading Retro ISA Card Means Old, Slow Computers No Longer Need Old, Heavy Monitors
[The 8-Bit Guy] recently went to check out a stash of old Apple II Color monitors which had been sitting outside in a trash pile for 20 years, and decided …read more Continue reading Disgusting Apple II Monitors Live Again
Feeling nostalgic we presume, [Glen Kleinschmidt] set out to build a 640x480x64 VGA controller card from discrete logic chips. If we ignore the 512Kx8 Cypress SRAM video memory, he succeeds, …read more Continue reading VGA Graphics Card in 74xx Logic
We will be the first to admit that it’s often hard to be productive while working from home, especially if no one’s ever really looking over your shoulder. Well, here …read more Continue reading Eyecam is Watching You in Between Blinks