Tons of great vintage projects – “Our goal is to preserve the inspired DIY spirit of the past. Our free project reprints cover farm machines, the woodshop, machine shop, boats, archery and more. These vintage plans come from a half-century ago when do-it-yourself enthusiasts turned wood, metal and old motors into useful workhorses, functional tools, […]
James writes – “I’m running a Top 10 list of my favorite “Retrocomputers” on Retro Thing. Many are DIY replicas (like the Briel Apple I clone and a miniature PDP-8) or old-stock classic microcomputers that you can still buy today (like the Sinclair ZX81 kit).” – Link.
This isn’t some new web cam laser beam gadget or Google adsense ad layout optimization, it’s from Popular Mechanics – 1953. Camera Records “Eye Interest” of Reader for Items on Page – Link.
Nick writes in regarding our “Industrial Archeology” post – “Glenn Grieco is building a model of the sidewheel steamer Heroine as part of his work in the Ship Model Shop at the Nautical Archaeology Program at the U of Texas. Some good pictures of the CNC milling and CAD models…He is working with the remains […]
ABC’s American Inventor, produced by American Idol’s Simon Cowell’s starts up in a couple weeks (Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 8/7c) – but, putting inventors on TV to showcase their inventions has some interesting history – check out this article from Popular Mechanics 1955 on Modern Mechanix – Thanks Charlie! Link. Related: American Inventor – […]
Griffon writes – “This is an entertaining article that extensively details putting a DVD player in a NES case and making it look as close to the original NES as possible. The article even has a video of it in action! He even got the reset button of the NES to eject the tray. Really […]
Regis and Brad sent in their open source Pinball emulation / control software – “PinMame-HW is a derivative work of PinMame, whereas “HW” stands for “HardWare.” PinMame emulates the hardware of many (if not most) pinball machines by using the original ROM code. PinMame can emulate as many as 484 pinball machines, such as Bally, […]
