I’ve been wanting a sunrise lamp for a long time, but I’ve never found the perfect one. Having a free summer, and the knowledge that I would be starting my first full time job in many years in the fall…

Adafruit is joining us along with the Raspberry Pi Foundation for our upcoming event on wednesday, and they’ve offered up an amazing Raspberry Pi shaped goodie backpack filled with accessories. The event is sold out but if you have an…

We’re often asked if we can host an introductory programming class or two; in fact, our resident Classmaster informs me that a full 19.76% of former students report they’d be “very interested” in programming courses. To that 19.76% of a…

Vector displays are now mostly historical oddities — old arcade games like Asteroids or Tempest, or ancient FAA radar displays — which gives them a certain charm. Unlike modern raster displays, the electron beam in the CRT is not swept…

While digging through dumps generated from the Apple Mac SE ROM images we noticed that there was a large amount of non-code, non-audio data. Adam Mayer tested different stride widths and found that at 67 bytes (536 pixels across) there…

SMT is here to stay, so let’s all just get on with it and learn how to use these tiny things. You can make better, faster, cheaper, more durable, smaller and neater projects. Bonus: you will feel like a great…

Heading to Toorcamp? Take a second to cast around your hackerspace, workshop, or trash heap and grab any interesting-looking ROMs you come across (or just any sufficiently interesting/old PCBs). I’ll be there with one of Trammell’s incredible super-tiny readers, a…

This is neither a tree root nor an eldritch horror — it is a thirty year old wiring harness from a punch card sorter. If you enjoyed our IBM 129 card data recorder restoration or are a fan of vacuum…

So you want to dump a ROM, but don’t have a breadboard? You can use a Teensy, some female-female jumpers and if you have one, a ZIF socket. I cut the power and ground wires and soldered three additional leads…