Collaborate Disseminate
Technology marches on at a rapid pace, but in many fields much love remains for older hardware. While still highly capable, there’s often room for improvement thanks to components made available in the intervening years. After longing for his SY-77 synthesiser of the 90s, [Mark] sourced a tired SY-99, the …read more
Continue reading Quality Upgrades Give Old Synth New Lease On Life
While it’s important to get fresh seafood from fishing boats to restaurants as fast as possible, using a full-size crewed aircraft to do so isn’t always cost-effective. That’s why Yamaha and Japan Airlines are now looking at using a drone for part of t… Continue reading Yamaha and Japan Airlines trial same-day seafood delivery by drone
Those of us who have worked with vintage sound generator chips such as the Yamaha FM synthesizers in recent years have likely run into our own fair share of “fake” or “remarked” chips, sometimes relabeled to appear as a chip different than the die inside the packaging entirely. [David Viens] …read more
Continue reading What To Know When Buying Chips That Haven’t Been Made For Three Decades
The Tokyo Motor Show is certainly no stranger to future-focused and crazy concept vehicles. Yamaha’s Tritown personal mobility vehicle was far from the most eye-catching on the floor of the 2017 edition, but the company certainly has faith in… Continue reading Yamaha eyes production for its oddball Tritown tilting three-wheeler
Yamaha’s R1 is one of the most iconic and recognized names in motorcycling. For a while there in the 2000s, it became more or less synonymous with “faired sportsbike” in the minds of the bike-curious but uneducated: “nice bike there mate, is … Continue reading Yamaha launches a new, Euro V-compatible R1 and R1M for 2020
If you’ve been kind enough to accompany me on these regular hardware explorations, you’ve likely recognized a trend with regards to the gadgets that go under the knife. Generally speaking, the devices I take apart for your viewing pleasure come to us from the clearance rack of a big box …read more
Continue reading Repairdown: Disklavier DKC500RW Control Unit
[Aidan] is really into FM synthesis chips for creating audio, and one of the most interesting chips from that era is found on the Sega Genesis. Anyone involved in the console wars at that time certainly remembers the classic, unique sound that those video game systems were able to produce, …read more
Wireless routers are the most often attacked and exploited type of IoT device. They are also one of the rare IoT devices that most of us can’t do without. We need them to be as secure as can be, but unfortunately most of them are not. The non-pro… Continue reading Regularly updating your wireless router is not enough to ward off attacks
Yamaha Paper Craft is shutting down on September 30. Continue reading Archivists Scramble to Preserve Yamaha’s Paper Craft Website Before it Shuts Down
There are dozens — dozens! — of options to meet your music and streaming needs these days. Looking to make something of his own that retains that 90’s vibe of having a dedicated stereo system but with modern wireless integration, [thk4711] turned an old Yamaha hifi into a Raspberry Pi streaming client.
As far as the case goes, a few modifications allowed [thk4711] to use all of the existing buttons, and a quick-swap of the back-plate and screen gave him a better enclosure than one he could fabricate himself. The power supply proved to be the most difficult part of …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi Radio Streaming Service Guts Yamaha Shelf System