James from Retroblast writes – “I just wanted to let you know about a contest we are running this month asking readers to produce Video Game and Pinball Motivational Posters. We have had an awesome response so far and want to keep the momentum up by letting as many gamers know about the contest as […]
This 2,000 year old clock-like device might be one of the oldest “computers” – “It looks like a heap of rubbish, feels like flaky pastry and has been linked to aliens. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the complex collection of cogs, wheels and dials seen as the most sophisticated object from antiquity, writes Helena […]
Carla posted up this neat retro hack in the MAKE photo pool… – “This was the first mod/hack/voidyourwarranty ever in my life. Thanks, Dad. *sniffle* before: store-pristine Atari 400 after: guts and memory of an Atari 800, flat 400 keyboard removed and replaced with a “real” keyboard. Yes, even at that age, I was naming […]
Here’s a fun project if you have one of those old NES robots, control’em with your PC! Thanks n0x! – Link. There are a few instant message toys/bots that plug in to USB, but you could make your own and have the NES bot move around when you get a new message, email, etc… Related: […]
Apartment based radio station, from Popular Science 1940 – “TO ENTERTAIN friends and neighbors in a New York apartment house, a group of professional radio performers operates a unique basement “broadcasting” station. Every Friday and Sunday evening, led by Les Paul and Earnie Newton, they go on the air from their homemade soundproof studio near […]
The National Park Service has a collection of early recordings (1888) recorded on phonographs and paraffine cylinders, in MP3 format… [via] – Link. Related: Edison National Historic Site, 48,000 disc and cylinder recording collection – Link.
Think you are a serious model maker? Think again. Pierre Scerri worked on this exact replica 1:3 Ferrari for 20,000 hours! It took Pierre 15 years and more than 20,000 hours to build this car. He learned to make glass so he could make the exact pattern lens for the operating headlights. He learned to […]
