Newton MP3 player…
MAKE Flickr photo pool member MH2 made an Apple Newton MP3 player, he writes “I download carefully prepared mp3 files to my outdated Newton MP 2100… I set up the 2100 to shut down after 10 minutes. Ten minutes each night, then I sleep. Of course the 2100 is no iPod. Music can’t be cut up as conveniently in two minute pieces as large audio book files, but above 900 KB (which is approx. 3,5 min @ 22050 Hz mono 32 kbps) transfer to the Newton gets complicated. Of course the internal speaker has only poor audio quality compared to an iPod. Or any other decent mp3 player, that is.” Link.
MAKE photo pool member Splops writes – “One of the many prototype Newton devices Walter Smith brought to the Worldwide Newton Conference. This is a pre-production version of the original MessagePad (OMP) and includes a hastily carved-out hatch on the top of the device. This hatch allows access to a flash ROM slot, used for dumping an updated operating system into a demonstration device. Note the the name of this device is a Notepad, not a MessagePad, as it was named when it finally shipped.” 
Daniel made an amazing case mod / MAME cabinet for playing old games, I really like his design. He writes “This is may take on a MAME cabinet. I didn’t have the space for a full-blown cabinet but still wanted the joysticks and buttons so I made this panel. It connects to the tv and is perfect to play from the couch.” 
Restoration of a HUGE AM/CW transmitter from the 50’s – “This article describes my restoration effort of a Globe King 500. I estimate that I expended about 100 hours on this project. It took a lot of tenacity, it was at times tedious and frustrating, but overall it was a very rewarding as well as an educational endeavor. I have included many pictures of the project at different stages. I hope you find it interesting but more importantly, I hope you can learn from my mistakes and newly gained experience.” 
Chris writes “Here is a quick list of ten mods for the NES controller. There are lots of cool, and even lots of pointless things that can be done. It is amazing to see all of the innovative ideas.” Included hacks – USB, mouse, Pocket PC control, Bluetooth, MP3 player, card reader and more… 
C64s.com has a pretty neat way to play your old favorite Commodore 64 games / retro-games right in your browser. Each day you can get a daily dose of C64 nostalgia with their “game a day” mailing list. All games are abandonware or copyleft. 
Check out this amazing relay computer “Features of the Arithmetic Logic Unit: Two 8-bit inputs (from B and C registers) 8-bit result (onto data bus) 3-bit function code input Functions: Add, Increment, And, Or, Xor, Not, Shift-left, Nop Carry output (from Add, Increment) Zero-detect output Features of the Register Unit: 8 Registers (8-bits each) Register Names: A, B, C, D, M1, M2, X, and Y Data Bus (8 LEDs and 8 Switches) Features of the Program Control Unit: Program Counter (16 bits) Instruction Register (8 bits) Jump Target Register (16 bits) Increment Unit (16 bits) Increment Register (16 bits) Address Bus (16 LEDs and 16 Switches)…” 
