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Dishwasher Monitoring Magic
The dish-o-tron 6000 is a thing of beauty by the hacker Blondihacks. It is an automatic dishwasher monitor built to detect if a dishwasher contains clean or dirty dishes. The beauty lays in the fact...
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Retro AVR Computer
Mark Wilson has recreated the classic KENBAK computer using an AVR and some support electronics. This not only brings back a classic computer in a modern form, it provides a computer basic enough to be...
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Uzebox – an 8-bit Gaming Console
The Uzebox is an old school gaming console hardware designed for today’s hobbyists. It is based around an ATmega MCU and an RGB-to-NTSC (or PAL) converter chip. The system has 4kB of RAM and 64kB of...
View ArticlePortable Electronics Lab
Built from an old laptop, sk7ca‘s portable electronics lab is quite impressive. It contains a generous breadboard area, an LCD display, a keypad, various inputs, outputs, sensors , gizmos and the now...
View Article3D LED Matrix
Fredrik Petrini has posted a detailed build instruction for a 3D LED matrix. That is, a truly three dimensional display with 125 pixels. Can't see the video in your RSS reader or email? Click Here!
View ArticleSelf-printed Retro Joystick
Over at Thingiverse, the Dutchman known as srepmub has published a great looking 3D printable retro joystick. The instructions contains printable parts, PCB and build instructions. As a later entry, he...
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Build a Custom FPGA
FPGAs are monsters of flexible logic. If you have a problem that can be pipelined or run in parallel you can perform miracles. If performance isn’t your focus, you can emulate beautiful machines from...
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The real Pong
The classic game of pong has been reimplemented many times in different settings. For the purist, the right way of doing it is to base the replica on the original schematics. This imgur album shows how...
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Improved ATX PSU
Francesco Truzzi just announced a really great ATX PSU break-out board. It can act as a USB charger, has a variable voltage output and a set of fixed voltage levels (3.3, 5 and 12v). The design is...
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Impressive 6502 Home Computer
Dirk Grappendorf has been working on a serious looking MOS 6502 based computer. Over at his site, you can follow his development diary. The computer was developed between September 2014 and January...
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