Midnight society’s cigar box radio – “On this page you will find complete plans for the Cigar Box Crystal Radio Set. This project was first published in Volume 7 of the Xtal Set Society Newsletter, but the project has been so popular that we decided to put it online. The plans were written by Joseph […]
Turn a NES gun into a mouse (good for Duck hunt MAME) – Link.
From Popular Mechanics 1948 – on the excellent Modern Mechanix site – Link.
Fantastic upright NES mod to make it look like a PS2 – [via] Link.
Bill’s homebrew CPU – “Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn’t use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but rather has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands of individually wrapped wires. And, it works. Not only the hardware, but there’s also […]
Luckiest kid ever – from Popular Mechanics 1955 – Link.
Jason Scott is digitizing a lot of old computer and tech ads from the 80’s – [via] Link. Background – Link.
