Ok, first of all an important mention goes out to Edderic Ugaddan (twitter @eddericu ) who is currently making and selling a cool device called the Laminair. It's his research that showed me that this kind of device was valuable, because he has...
The problem lies in the lack of response, over time the little pads inside become corroded and unresponsive. Eventually, no amount of cleaning and disassembling actually fixes this and you end up replacing either the entire controller or purchasing one...
I have to blame my pal Danno for this. He wanted a 70's vintage "color organ" one of those things that used to be a box that had Christmas tree lights on the inside and that frazzled plastic they put over fluorescent light fixtures on the front....
This is the big one! After a few weeks, both boards are finally here! Small disclaimer though: the control board actually arrived a couple weeks prior to the sensor board, but since I found myself still trying to catch up on logs, I ended up waiting...
Remember those 80s keychains with the laser noises? Some were called the Executor, The Echo Keyller, Thriller, and some other names. This was my first real circuit bending project (that's why I called it Patient Alpha) and might be of interest to those...
(Original post date: 06/03/16)Even though I ended up constructing a brand new front panel for the toy piano for this project, the rest of the enclosure of the vintage toy synth will be using the existing piano enclosure. Apart from the front...
Jason Kridner Gerald Coley and I started up BeagleBoard.org as a lunch conversation in 2007. Both of us were TI employees at the time (I still am), but we wanted to make OMAPs (mobile phone chips) more accessible and I suggested making something...
I had an old Allis Chalmers CA far tractor that I needed to move about 30 feet further into our property. This would be simple except the tractor has not ran in 10 years, the tires have sunk deep into the mud, and one of the rims is rotted out...
The design is directly inspired by the very detailed build of the Roubo (a French woodworker that published in the 1770 years an encyclopedia about woodwork : http://roubo.art/planches/tablePl_p1.htm) bench found when looking at how to use that...
Thursday, 16:41, 15/12/202220/12/2022Sorry for the delay, for some reason my brain refused to work these last 5 days, so I didn't work that much on this project log as I wished to. 23/12/2022 For some reason, it seems like this Project log is so...
In this post I want to go over the architecture of COMET68k in some more detail. Specifically I'll describe the busses that exist, which peripherals are on them, and how they function. Basic Architecture COMET68k is an enhanced collection of peripherals...
Demo Videos: The final CPC Portable playing "Oh Mummy!": Build Objectives In principle, I am not a big fan of case mods. Being a collector of retro computers, I strive to restore and preserve the original hardware. This cost-reduced CPC 464...
OK, let's get started. I'm really excited to have Sam Zeloof here with us today. We've been covering Sam's homebrew ICs for a while now, and it's great to have him for a realtime chat. Welcome, Sam! Can you maybe kick things off with a little about yourself?...
samy kamkar11:56 AM foreline trap (which I recently baked out way too long and destroyed the zeolite) -> Edwards EXT255Hi turbomolecular pump -> chamber -- with an MKS901P Pirani gauge and BPG400 Bayard-Alpert gauge Mark J Hughes12:09 PM@samy kamkar...