Soviet TV casemod
Via Avi Abrams’ most-excellent Dark Roasted Blends comes this gorgeous AMD Athlon 64×2 Dual Core PC w/ 400GB HD housed in a 1961 REKORD Soviet TV unit. Soviet TV receiver PC case mod – [via] Link
Retro
Bluetoothing a Trash 80
Remember ye ol’ Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100? I used one long after their heyday (when laptop really still meant luggable and battery life was a joke). This thing had wordpro, calendar, a term program, built-in modem, and it ran FOREVER on 4 AA batteries. Eric Gradman recently played a great prank on a new […]
Mystery heirloom
Docpop was looking for what this is, he writes – My friend, and fellow maker, Rachel has an unusual brass family heirloom, but she has absolutely no idea what it is. She’s been trying to figure out what this mystery piece does. Maybe a Make reader can help us figure it out. Mystery heirloom – […]
Happy birthday VMS, OS turns 30 years old
Wow, VMS just turned 30 and it (still) runs all sorts of important things… – Gareth Williams, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Minor Planet Center since 1990, has been tracking the 400,000 orbits of known asteroids and comets in the solar system using a cluster of 12 VAXes, from offices on the Harvard […]
Pac-Gentleman (Steampunk Pac-Man is real – ROM!)
Scott sent in this hack for Ms. Pac-Man to turn it into “Pac-Gentleman”. It’s based on Doktor A’s “Pac-Gentleman” art project. Graphics and program data were changed, and you can download the hacked ROM – Link. Makers you know what to do, make a mini-MAME arcade, carve up some wood and start playing!
Homemade “Last Starfighter” video game
Chuck writes in – Who didn’t walk out of The Last Starfighter — yep, the Lance Guest movie from the ’80s — hoping to find a Starfighter game in the arcade? Sadly, the game was never produced. But some guys over at Rogue Synapse recreated a playable version of the actual game from the movie […]
Wind-up steampunk laptop
Our pal Datamancer has finally finished and posted details on his steampunk laptop. And it was worth the wait. Seriously cool. He also has a tutorial on making the brass faceplate he used on the mod and a page showing his gorgeous custom-made steampunk keyboards. I like how he has a customer testimonial on the […]
