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Okay, so we’re opening with more than just a keyboard, and that’s fine. In fact, it’s more than fine, it’s probably the cutest lil’ ZX Spectrum you’ll see today. [SrBlonde]’s …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Transmitting Typewriter
Although it seems many have moved on to 32-bit MCUs these days for projects, there is still a lot of fun to be had in the 8-bit AVR world, as …read more Continue reading Playing ZX Spectrum’s Manic Miner on the Arduino Uno
[Gabriel Gambetta] knows a few things about ray tracers, being the author of Tiny Raytracer, a raytracer written in just 912 bytes of JavaScript. As a long-time fellow sufferer of …read more Continue reading A ZX Spectrum Raytracer, in BASIC
How can we convey to a world in which a 64-bit laptop can be a near-throwaway item, just how amazing a miniature laptop version of the 1980s Sinclair ZX Spectrum …read more Continue reading The Laptop Every British Kid Would Have Wanted For Christmas 1983
The Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 are well-known for bringing 3D gaming into the mainstream in a way that preceding consoles just couldn’t. The ZX Spectrum, on the other hand, …read more Continue reading ZX Spectrum Gets a 3D FPS Engine
Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probably used cassette tapes to store programs and data if you used pretty much any …read more Continue reading A Modern Replacement for the ZX Spectrum’s Odd Tape Storage System
The ZX Spectrum was a popular computer of the 8-bit era. Now, it’s possible to emulate this machine on a microcontroller so cheap that it’s literally been given away on …read more Continue reading A Pico-Based ZX Spectrum Emulator
Why scour the internet for a rare-as-hen’s-teeth new in box ZX Spectrum computer when you can instead order up some parts, assemble a basically all new ZX Spectrum along with …read more Continue reading Recreating the ZX Spectrum Unboxing Experience By Manufacturing a New Boxed One
If you buy WS2812s under the Adafruit NeoPixel brand, you’ll receive the advice that “An 8 MHz processor” is required to drive them. “Challenge Accepted!“, says [ShielaDixon], and proceeded to …read more Continue reading Addressable LEDs From a Z80
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is fondly remembered by many for being their first introduction into the wonderful world of computing. Its advanced capabilities coupled with a spectacularly low price made …read more Continue reading The ZX Spectrum Finally Gets a Proper Keyboard