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John Anderson

Re-imaging retro hardware and applying it to new tasks with new technology

Dallas, Texas

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This user joined on 01/03/2020.

My Projects

Resto-Mod Dungeons and Dragons Digital Dice Tower based on a 1975 Bell & Howell IMD-202 Digital Multimeter

1978 "Heathkit" D&D Digital Dice Tower

Retro-Futuristic 8-bit AVR based computer with 5" TTL CRT, PS-2 Keyboard, Serial Thermal Printer, PCM sound, and flash file system

Resto-Mod 8 bit microcomputer

My Lists

Resto-Mod Electronics

Re-imagining classic hardware and applying it to new tasks with new technology.

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Projects I Like & Follow

This is my attempt to build a device that will trace Lissajous curves on a CRT with input from the user.

LissaJukebox (aka dedicated Lissajous machine)

Hackaday Prize 2019

When did the charm of holding a bulky receiver to your ear end? What if we could bring the feel of the old times to our smartphones?

An old rotary phone as Bluetooth set

You can never have too many clocks based on obsolete display technologies ...

Tiny IV-21 VFD Clock

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Using 14 panels with ISSI IS31FL3733 I2C matrix controllers, this artwork can show 8-bit grayscale on 2,688 individual LED segments.

336-digit 7-segment display with per-segment PWM

Got printer? Connect to the motors with a Pi, plonk in a cheap scope, and do 2D and 3D scans!

Motorized Scanning Microscope using 3D printer

Attempting to reverse engineer an HP 4952A into a general purpose z80 computer capable of running CP/M.

HP 4952A turned general purpose CP/M machine

Trevor Johansen Aase

Make a computer based on the book "How to Build a Working Digital Computer" by Edward Alcosser, James P. Phillips, and Allen M. Wolk

WDC-1 a "Working Digital Computer"

An LCD touchscreen you can mount into a standard North American work box in place of a light switch for Home Automation control

HASwitchPlate

Turn a SMART Response XE terminal into an 80's flavour pocket computer

SMART Response XE BASIC

Easy and fun; take a pic, run image object detection and process the results on Raspberry Pi and Mathematica

Easy Raspberry Image Object Identification

Marcelo Valeria

A custom Kerbal Space Program Controller so that my kid (myself) can launch rockets.

Kerbal Space Program Controller

VFD-equipped personal augmentation platform

Singularitron - Modular Cyberwatch

An audio router board with integrated volume control and buffered output

Viam Sonus 2.0

A binary clock made from TTL chips from the 70s and 80s

TTL binary clock

Ken Yap Ken Yap

Hackaday Prize 2019

A stackable multi level platform for HA / IOT sensors

Kube v2 Home Automation Sensor Platform

Retro console with the AY-3-8500 chip

PONG!

DIY Audio Amplifier APEX PREAMP P30ZF

Audio Amplifier APEX PREAMP P30ZF

Electroniclovers123

Vintage military hardware converted into a retro timekeeping device

Missile range tracker LED clock

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