BBC Micro:Bit as Handheld Synthesizer

The BBC Micro:bit, while not quite as popular in our community as other microcontroller development Read More →

Kids’ Jukebox Based on Arduino with RFID

Consumer electronics aimed at young children tend to be quite janky and cheap-looking, and they Read More →

What Happens when Implants Become Abandonware?

You’ve probably had a company not support one of your devices as long as you’d Read More →

A Kid’s Toy Guitar Turned Into An Electric Ukulele

With the holiday season fast approaching, there’s a good chance that some well-meaning friend or Read More →

Retrotechtacular: A 1960s Look at the 21st Century Home

If you only watch the first 60 seconds of 1967’s “At Home, 2001,” you’ll be Read More →

Dumping Game Boy Cartridges Via The Link Cable Port

When it comes to vintage consoles like the Game Boy, it’s often nice to be Read More →

How The Turntable Paradox Works

Leave most objects on top of a turntable, and set it spinning, and they’ll fly Read More →

Massive Mouse Game Mimics Classic Software Crashes

Computer mice come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, but are typically designed to Read More →

The Story Behind the TVGuardian Curse Catcher

The recent flurry of videos and posts about the TVGuardian foul language filter brought back Read More →

HUD-Like Clock is a Transparent Time Display

While we have all types of displays these days, there’s something special about those that Read More →

Resurrecting PONG, One Jumper Wire At A Time

Between 1976 and 1978, over one million Coleco Telstar video game consoles were sold. The Read More →

Open World 3D Game Runs On The RP2040 Microcontroller

The Raspberry Pi RP2040 is versatile and cheap, but it’s by no means known as Read More →

After 40 Years, Adobe Releases PostScript Source v0.10 for Posterity

Celebrating their 40th anniversary, Adobe released the source code of PostScript v0.10 to the Computer Read More →

A Concealed Model Railway Rises To The Occasion

Occasional pieces of furniture serve little purpose other than to fill a space and maybe Read More →

Interesting Optical Journey Results in Hybrid Viewfinder for Smartphones

Fair warning: if you ever thought there was nothing particularly interesting with optical viewfinders, prepare Read More →

CGA Competitors from the 1980s

[David Murray], aka The 8-Bit Guy, did an interesting video (embedded below the break) on Read More →

Laser Projector Needs Hardware Hack After Software Mod

You probably recognize that dreadful feeling when you reboot a gadget after updating its firmware, Read More →

Fixing (And Improving!) an Annoying Apartment Entry System

[Zak]’s two-floor apartment has a typical door entry control system, but the setup is less Read More →

A VM In An AI

AI knoweth everything, and as each new model breaks upon the world, it attracts a Read More →

Ultimate Game and Watch Has Support for NES

We’ve talked about feature creep plenty of times around here, and it’s generally regarded as Read More →

Clean Slate is a Vintage Amplifier-Inspired PC

Hacks that bring a vintage flair to modern electronics never get old, and [Jeffrey Stephenson] Read More →

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