Alan sent in this old electric safe on eBay, it buzzed when it was lifted… German Collectible Antique Safety Box Safe with electronic alarm. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Very old Safe. With key. Bottom stamped, Made in Germany. With what appears to be a SN of 9500. I don’t know […]
Richard Nagy, better known by his online moniker Datamancer, is the star of a new Wall Street Journal video on steampunk hardware hacking. Peek Into a “Steampunk” Workshop – Link
Design boom’s cassette tape culture – these days it is hard to avoid the continuing debate that surrounds the ‘future of music’ and the formats that bring it to us. however this so called ‘digital age’ isn’t the first time that new music formats have created such a stir, some time not too long ago […]
Popular Science 1946 – How a North Carolina Sportsman Makes and Shoots His Slingshots. ONE OF boyhood’s traditional toys has come of age. Jim Gasque, North Carolina sportsman, has proved that the ordinary slingshot, when properly made and used, can be an adult weapon of deadly accuracy at distances up to 30′–a range sufficient for […]
I really like this chart Todd made of his last 25 years of computing – Link.
Modern Mechanix 1935 MODERN electronic engineers duplicate the music of a primitive marimba band with light beams, photo-electric cells and radio tubes. Dr. Phillips Thomas of the Westinghouse Research laboratory recently demonstrated a “light music” instrument which played by waving flashlights held in each hand. Dozens of photo-cells and radio tubes are lined up side […]
Paul Zbar, electronics educator from the Hickok photo archive, amazing stuff – Link.
