Today I gave a fresh try to the tandem networkboot-customiso. As the network boot is already working, I will try to explain the steps to create the iso and make it available over tftp boot. Create an ISO I can boot: (ideally with pre-installed...
I know what you are thinking. As WOPR (pronounced "whopper") said when asked "Is this real or is this a simulation"?" -- What's the difference? Right? What are a few megatons among friends, or former friends? On the other...
Imagine it's the summer of 1975. A warm breeze blows through the window as you carefully slide the cover over the Altair 8800 you just finished building. You look down upon the rows of LEDs and switches, and realize with a sense of pride that you're...
I have been exploring the possibility of creating a 360 camera for street motion capture for a while. It all started with an article I came across on the internet about Surround360 - a solution that was designed and released as open-source by the Facebook...
I've led an incredible life, one too incredible to keep telling, so I'm putting it all here in brief. Buried among the rest of my stuff it will tell my story until I'm ready to write my book. One day I will, but until then. Born Jan 1967, same year as...
Today is the deadline for the Hackaday Prize contest, and that's a great chance to write a recap article about Prism. ---------- more ---------- Before going on with the technicalities, you can read an overview of the reasoning behind the project, learn...
The Squeezebox Keyboard is a custom-designed ergonomic computer keyboard I have been working on for nearly a year now. The primary design driving factors include: Wanting the keys really close together both within a column and across columnsIf there...
PicoRAM 2090 A Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040)-based 2114 SRAM Emulator and Multi-Expansion for the Busch 2090 Microtronic Computer System. Final Demo Video on YouTube: I have written about the Microtronic here before, and done a few Microtronic-related projects:...
Getting the stock radio out was easy. I am not a total stranger to doing car audio installs so I figured this was a piece of cake. As it turns out not all cake is sweet nor easy to swallow. Think stale carob. I used to have a...
So what the hell is it?A handheld battery powered terminal with Display, Keyboard, WiFi, RFID and Barcode scanners.What would I use it for?Anything that requires data capture (RFID, barcode or numeric input) shops, warehouses and factories are good environments...
Long before Marvel Comic's Iron Man movie series came out, and before Iron Man's technological concepts in the comic pages even got a veneer of plausibility, long before anime became mainstream, I watched a lot of Mecha Anime, from Robotech to Appleseed....
TKIRV - now controllable over the internet! Because hell yes. Check out the orange wheeled monster in action...From the beginning, the goal of this project has been to build an R/C car that can travel far and wide. This necessitated a way of controlling...
As you know, hackathons often start with idea pitches. Then, groups assemble for bringing these ideas into reality. The ideas that don't collect enough people, do not continue. This one did, with one hell of a pitch:I have this device controlling my...
I've built many contraptions over my forty-some years. And I'm a bit surprised that, to date, none of them have really involved pumps. Okay, there was that one "hey, we have some high power sump pumps from the flood, and a kids' pool, and some steel...
Update: Thanks to Neil for correcting some of my (bad) assumptions about parts.Update 2: It turns out that KiCad doesn't merge plated-through and non-plated-through hole drill files by default. I had to email the NPTH drill file to them separately. Next...