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  • Vectrex cartridge board

  • Retro gaming project by @Frank Buss Vectrex cartridge This is my first version of a PCB for building a Vectrex cartridge. I used this for my Kickstarter project for the Bloxorz game. The PCB was manufactured by @oshpark , you can order your...
  • Comparison of XiAleste with other projects

  • A little bit about the motivations for creating the project XiAleste.The presence of similar projects for ZX Spectrum and C128 provoked the beginning of this project. Another reason was that Aleste 520EX is difficult to assemble and its circuitry does...
  • SYM-1 to USB Serial

  • The Sym-1 was created by Synertek in the age of Teletypes ASR-33 when they were pretty much the best "golden standard" interface available for some, and for others the cheapest was the ubiquitous Hex keyboard and display. Well it was 1978, or thereabouts,...
  • 42 Years Experiencing Life, The Universe and Game Development

  • As of October 2023 I have retired from a long and rewarding 42 year career in game development (mostly engineering and programming). I count myself as having been very lucky to have had such an interesting and successful career as well as being able...
  • Functional Emotive Real-time Business Interface

  • The FERBI is a modification of Hasbro's 1998 Furby. What is it?The goal of this project is to put a Furby into a metal box and slap some controls and blinkenlights on it. The end result would be a sort of interface reminiscent of a minicomputer. Another...
  • My Projects

  • Here I will list all of my public projects regardless of their current state of development. The following items will be organized into categories for those that are developed, under development, frozen in development, and abandoned. This page...
  • Hello World, 60s Style

  • Originally published in 2017. PDP-1 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory As you might have gathered from my projects, I am a bit of computer and electronics history buff. I’m old enough to actually remember using an 8-bit Heathkit H-89 computer...
  • Introduction to Raspberry Pi Zero

  • Background:       The pi zero is the smallest version of the Raspberry pi. It's a slightly bigger than a stick of gum but it's still a full ratified computer. It's fantastic for trading Time Lord Pi projects like sitting...
  • Firing a laser beam to the Moon and back to Earth

  • During the Apollo 11 Moon mission in 1969, astronaut Buzz Aldrin placed two experiments on the moon during an extravehicular activity. See Figure 1. Figure 1 In astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s left hand is a seismic experiment, and in his right is a laser-reflecting...
  • Air Castle

  • Originally published in 2016. This 1949 Air Castle AM/FM radio (model 149654) was was my second restoration project after my maiden voyage with a Motorola All-American Five. Air Castle AM/FM Radio The radio was a gift from my dad, who got it from a customer...
  • Sym-1 plus EPROM

  • One of the popular chip formats in the 70's and 80's were the ubiquitous EPROMs (Electrically Programmable Read Only Memories). They had very good memory density at the time and were accessible technology for hackers and OEMs alike. They had the advantage...
  • A firmware monostable (and other circuit blocks)

  • Recently I was looking to use a 74LS123 dual retriggerable monostable as pulse stretchers. I have used them before in a DTL clock. I only needed a subset of the pins, the /A input for the input pulse and the /Q output for the output pulse. Two additional...
  • ZX-81 Restoration Video Modification

  • So while still waiting for HBSound's Prototyping sponsor, PCBWay,  to finish up and ship off the prototypes for that project.  I did have some time to work on the ZX81 Restoration.   I am still working through the best way to clean...
  • Sym-1 to R-Pi SBCs

  • Hi fellow Hackers, Every hacker's project published on Hackaday has some sort of back story, and a history of personal achievements and journeys. These are my personal reminiscences sparked off by the desire to revisit to the world of the Sym-1. You...
  • directMessage

  • directMessage A custom-designed hardware that establishes secure communication with identical devices through a dedicated 865MHz (EU868/US915/AU915/KR920/IN865) channel, utilizing the Lora E5 SOC (Wio-E5) from Seeed Studios. I would like to express...