PicoGUS adds CD-ROM Emulation to ISA Bus

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PicoGUS Adds CD-ROM Emulation To ISA Bus

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience....

Punch card controlled Cyberdeck Lives In 80s Toy

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Punch Card Controlled Cyberdeck Lives In 80s Toy

Have you ever seen a toy and said “That wants to be a deck”? [Attoparsec] did, when his eyes fell upon the Little Talking Scholar, a pu...

A Scanner for Arduino-Powered Book Archiving

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A Scanner For Arduino-Powered Book Archiving

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for...

Remember when PCs used to have big mains power buttons that you could thumb off in anger when the machine misbehaved? "Kick it in the guts!" you'd say, as you executed a hard off with vigor.

The Tao of Bespoke Electronics

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The Tao Of Bespoke Electronics

If you ever look at projects in an old magazine and compare them to today’s electronic projects, there’s at least one thing that will s...

There’s A New Reusable Rocket, And It’s A Honda

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There’s A New Reusable Rocket, And It’s A Honda

As we watched the latest SpaceX Starship rocket test end in a spectacular explosion, we might have missed the news from Japan of a different rocket...

Keeping Snap and Crackle under Control with Prunt Printer Firmware

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Keeping Snap And Crackle Under Control With Prunt Printer Firmware

For quite some time now, Marlin has been the firmware of choice for any kind of custom 3D printer, with only Klipper offering some serious competit...

Adapting an Old Rotary Dial for Digital Applications

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Adapting An Old Rotary Dial For Digital Applications

Today in old school nostalgia our tipster [Clint Jay] wrote in to let us know about this rotary dial. If you’re a young whippersnapper you mi...

Crowdsourcing SIGINT: Ham Radio at War

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Crowdsourcing SIGINT: Ham Radio At War

I often ask people: What’s the most important thing you need to have a successful fishing trip? I get a lot of different answers about bait, ...

Randomly Generating Atari Games

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Randomly Generating Atari Games

They say that if you let a million monkeys type on a million typewriters, they will eventually write the works of Shakespeare. While not quite the ...