Silicon wafers sit in online carts for a few dollars, plain p-type disks cut from larger crystal ingots and free of any factory patterns. A short score with a diamond or silicon-carbide scribe splits them into small squares a few millimeters across, then a rinse in isopropyl alcohol and distilled water clears the dust left […]
Throaty Mumbo has spent the past year chasing projects that most people would dismiss before the first soldering iron heats up. This time the target was a standard Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the same gray box that once needed a cartridge and a CRT television. Instead of another emulator sitting on a modern computer, the […]
Nintendo 64 controllers already look chunky next to modern pads, with three grips and a stick planted in the middle. ChaosBench took that layout and enlarged it until ordinary button presses turned into arm movements that require real force. ChaosBench began with creating a digital model of a typical game controller, which was then hollowed […]
Zachary Tong had never designed a chip. He had never programmed an FPGA either, and he will tell you his electrical skills were rough. With about a month left before the first wafer.space deadline, he still decided to write a microprocessor, send the file to a real foundry, and wait to see if silicon came […]
Action Retro just sat down with Pico Micro Mac v3, and the little board did the rare thing cheap retro kits keep promising. Power went in, a smiling Macintosh face appeared, and a real System desktop came up ready for a USB mouse. His video calls it a tiny 90s Macintosh. Software-wise it is closer […]
Viewer David from Virginia Beach mailed Michael MJD a pair of forgotten promotional CDs he picked up at Linux World 2000, and those discs still hold complete, ready-to-boot virtual machines of Red Hat Linux 6.1 and SuSE Linux. VMware handed them out as marketing pieces that let Windows users try popular Linux distributions without hunting […]
Prince Harry and Megan Markle have returned to the U.K., but not to any official royal duties. But just in case there is any hint of confusion, King Charles released a letter of clarification on Monday. CBS News’ Holly Williams has details. Prince Harry and Meghan won't be working royals, King Charles confirms #Prince #Harry […]
A regular-looking mouse sits on a desk, clicks as expected, and still moves a cursor. Same object also boots a desktop on a monitor and plays Minecraft. That collision of jobs is the whole point of YouTuber Gadget Industry’s latest build: a Samsung phone’s computer stuffed into a pointing device that never stopped being a […]
Nick Alvarez, the electrical engineer and maker who posts as NickBuilds and Nickbuildstuff, decided a regular Game Boy Color was too small for what he had in mind. He built one that stands ten feet tall and still accepts button presses, volume twists, and game input the way the 1998 original did. Alvarez didn’t actually […]
A U.S. citizen working for a humanitarian organization in Congo has tested positive for the Ebola virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, as the Central African country struggles to contain the swelling outbreak. The CDC said it was working with the person’s employer, U.S. agencies, the public health authorities […]