Making one’s own power tools can be a rewarding way to upcycle parts, and [bluesyann] does exactly that with a belt file made from an old mixer. We like how the enclosure for the old mixer ...

Flying and driving simulators can go as far as money will take you, and at some point it might end up being cheaper to buy a plane or race car than to keep adding capabilities to some of the sim ...

Retrocomputing is more than just hardware. It’s also a feel, a vibe, and [valkyrie0528]’s Retro Terminal Bartop Arcade Topper ...

As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will ...

Before HDMI and DVI there was VGA, and before that? TTL RGB, in which instead of analogue voltages, the connector carried TTL logic voltages. TTL monitors used to be ten a penny because nobody ...

We’ve seen plenty of game console projects here, many of them that seek to produce a miniature game console. But this one ...

Most home security sensors require a chemical battery or external power source to operate, which can be a point of weakness. If the battery in a window or door sensor dies overnight and nobody is ...

There are many ways to display text on a computer screen, but most require at least some manual effort from the user. It’s annoying enough even if you’re dealing with one machine, but ...

Repurposing old smartphones for more general purpose computing isn’t a new thing, but the project by [LastComputer] ups the ...

We imagine that electroplating is like making PC boards or soldering surface-mount chips. Before you’ve done it, it seems ...

Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification of some ...

We’ve had a lot of flying hacks here over the years, and that includes just about any way to get airborne you can think of — ...