Ken Shirriff writes about a computer restoration project:

Xerox Alto’s 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a gateway with a BeagleBone

A small robot car that you could build yourself and program it to follow a black line on the floor. A small game platform, that you could build and program yourself. Those are the Tinusaur project goodies. They can help you learn, teach and make things with microcontrollers, and have […]

via ANNOUNCEMENT: The Tinusaur Crowdfunding Campaign on January 22nd 2018 — The Tinusaur Project

It probably doesn’t get much worse than nuclear conflagration, when it comes to risks facing the planet. Countries nervously peering at each other, each jealously guarding their stocks of warheads. It seems an unlikely place to find a 34C3 talk about 6502 microprocessors, but that’s what [Moritz Kütt] and [Alex Glaser] managed to deliver.

via 34C3: Vintage Verification, Stop Nuclear War With A 6502 — Hackaday

The Cartinu is a small robot car that you could build yourself. But don’t worry! It isn’t that complicated – this circuit, is so simple, that there are very few things that could go wrong. The “brain” of the Cartinu is the Tinusaur board that is powered by the popular Atmel ATtiny85 microcontroller. Once your Cartinu is ready […]

via CARTINU – Small Robot Car, Powered by the Tinusaur – ATtiny85 Board — The Tinusaur Project

tl;dr You know when you see something and it give you instant inspiration and you also see a few ways you would also improve it. The thing I seen was wonky resistor score zero it’s basically a raspberry pi “hat” that has buttons in the layout of a nes controller. What I first thought was to make […]

via ZeroBoy – A poor man’s retropie “portable” — Facelesstech

Another Candle — About using electronic stuff

Christmas lightnings around houses are not my favorite, however I like the atmosphere of warm little candles put on the bottom borders of the windows . That’s the starting point of a long and lazy digression. Instead of burning continuously paraffin wax, could we make a reusable electronic one ? Of course, there is tons […]

When reading about cool projects and products, it’s common to see wiring plugs labelled “JST connector.” This looks fine until we start getting hands-on and begin hacking things together. Inevitably we find the JST connector from one part fails to fit in the JST connector of another. This is the moment we learn “JST” is […]

via JST Is Not A Connector — Hackaday

Well, as promised in my last CPC2 post, I finished the next build of the CPC2 board and learned a lot of things during the process. Somethings worked, some things didn’t, but every build is giving me a wealth of knowledge of product design, fault diagnosis and rectification work. Yes, de-solder braid really was my […]

via Retro CPC Dongle – Part 32 — Intelligent Toasters

Show of hands: how many of you have parked your car in the driveway, walked up to your house, and pressed your car’s key fob button thinking it would open the front door? We’ve probably all done it and felt a little dopey as a result, but when you think about it, it would be […]

via Samy Kamkar: Reverse Engineering for a Secure Future — Hackaday

For a while now I have been intrigued with Integrated Light Sources i.e. NeoPixels. I knew nothing about them and with the coming of Christmas, I was inspired to take a closer look. I knew I would not have anything in place before Christmas 2017. But there is always next year.

via A Look into Integrated Light Sources — Rebooting Electronics