Pete writes – “Preserving the Knowledge of the Ancients? I’ve found that most of the technical books published before about 1964 never had their copyrights renewed, so now are in the public domain. So I am endeavoring to digitize and post some selected books relating to the “vacuum tube age” of electronics here.” This is […]
Here are scenes from some old favorites, like Duck Hunt, recreated in LEGO. [via] Link.
Scott writes – “Here are some photos I shot in the Visible Storage area of the amazing Computer History Museum in Mountain View California which has a huge collection of computers going back to the dawn of the computer age. It included computers like UNIVAC, Digital Equipment PDP and Vaxs, Cray Supercomputers, components from SAGE […]
James from Retrothing writes – “The classic 3-bit Digicomp mechanical computer from the 1960s has been reissued as a $49 kit. It looks fantastic.” Link.
Frogz in the Craftser forums has an awesome bag – “Inspired by the nintendo purse I decided to make my own nintendo bag, but instead of a purse, I made a messenger bag with the design of the controller on the flap. This was my first attempt ever at making a bag of any sorts. […]
MAKE Flickr pool member Rob Cruickshank’s EL wire project, an angry flower – “My first attempt at making anything with EL wire. The flower petals and eyes are a single piece of wire, flower pot is two pieces, and stem is spliced to the pot (splice not visible) EL wire and “fish” driver from Coolneon.com.” […]
Forkchop writes – “I was trying to make some screen captures of the Ds game “Ossu! Tatakae! Ouendan!, but the best way of doing so, would be to capture the whole thing on camera. The problem started when I needed to capture the video from above the DS. It had to be close enough so […]
