Hi Looking for comment advice assistance for my Senior Citizens SWL/Scanner/DXing Club STEAMPUNK/RETRO MODERN Projects. (Objet d'art/Plural Objets d'art) STEAMPUNK Radios/Receivers: TRF, & Regenerative Retrofit/Restore The...
References and inspiration RC2014 - Where this all started for me.OMEGA MSX kit. Demonstrates that its possible to build a compatible MSX2 system, using off the shelf components with a few ebay purchases. The published designs are a great...
This is a 4 digit TIL311 display board that was used for a lot of microprocessor debug. Back when dinosaurs roamed, there was no easy way to capture the state of a processor data or address bus. Only top labs could afford a logic analyzer. ...
Looking for a good place to get started making your own handheld Raspberry Pi-based emulator? Well you're in luck because this is the right place! One of the hardest things to do as a beginner trying to make something like this is finding all the right...
From OpenCores PDP-8 page: Features In this FPGA implementation, the PDP-8 CPU can be configured to emulate the instruction execution of a PDP-8 (Straight-8), PDP-8/S, PDP-8/S, PDP-8/I, PDP-8/L, PDP-8/E/F/M, PDP-8/A, HD-6100, or a HD-6120. The...
Key Goals Create a sandbox for experimenting with software and (FPGA) HW. Simplicity: It should be easy to jump in and do something: create, hack, tinker. It should be doable for a single person to develop a good understanding of the entire system, software...
This project was built using an old Project-or-View slide viewer that I found at a thrift store. I was inspired by it's resemblance to a tiny computer, and decided to turn it into a small, portable, Raspberry Pi powered computer (Pi Deck). The retro...
This was largely an aesthetic project and an exercise in designing within constraints. The main constraint was: everything needed to fit within my KDBfans carrying case. I wanted to build a companion brain (I mostly used it as a glorified Bluetooth...
After many retro projects, it is time to look intro the future! It's the year 2023 and the biggest technology trend (hype) is generative AI. Typically this is associated with high performance GPUs. But maybe we can make use of it on a lowly microcontroller?...
So, we're going to need to do some CAD, therefore we'll need some CAD software. There are some nice free-to-use choices out there: tinkercad.com, easily accessible on the web and runs in your browserMicrosoft's 3D Builder, built into Windows...
A web browser for the Arduino platform is a silly idea. The PIP Arduino browser is an on-going project. Parsing HTML code cleanly is not easy. Doing it in under 2KB of RAM is less so. When the code is cleaned up bit more (soon), it will be available...
All ticketed attendees of the Hackaday Belgrade conference will receive a Retro Computing badge. Get your ticket now and join us in Belgrade on 26 May! Table of Contents: Hackaday BASIC InterpreterBASIC Program ExamplesMusic Syntax and GuideSerial Communications...
No, the FunKey Zero is not YARPBRGC (Yet Another Raspberry Pi-Based Retro Gaming Console, sorry Eben ;-))! Actually, it must be considered as an original “concept toy” for our tiny (42x46x17mm) #Keymu - open source keychain-sized gaming...
Decades ago, I was offered a used Decwriter LA30 which was a printing terminal. I wanted hard copy from my CP/M computer of the time. It was a heavy beast; I think the lab that gave it to me was pleased to see it gone. I also got some technical...
Phase 1: Prove the Z80 works. Simple wiring with data pins pulled low (nop) and address pins counting on leds. Very excited to see the clock and read wave forms on DSO. Clock is a simple astable 555 circuit. Heavily leaned on Robin Mitchell's project...