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You Shouldn’t Build an X-Ray Machine, But You Could
Ever wanted your own X-ray machine? Of course you have! Many of us were indoctrinated with enticing ads for X-ray…

Self-Hosting a Cluster on Old Phones
The phones most of us carry around in our pockets every day hold a surprising amount of computing power. It’s…

The Computers of EPCOT
Even if you aren’t a Disney fan, you probably know about EPCOT — Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow — a…

Designing A Tone Control Properly
Many years ago, audio equipment came with a tone control, a simple RC filter that would cut or boost the…

ASCII to Mainframe
IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal,…

Turning Old Cellphones into SBCs
[David] sent us a tip about a company in Belgium, Citronics, that is looking to turn old cellphones into single-board…

FreeDOS 1.4 Released
Even in 2025 there are still many applications for a simple Disk Operating System (DOS), whether this includes running legacy…

Atomic Clock Trades Receiver for an ESP8266
The advantage of a radio-controlled clock that receives the time signal from WWVB is that you never have to set…

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One Where We Embrace the Jank
Yeah, yeah — not a keyboard. But one keyboard-adjacent topic I’m certainly interested in is that of finding a satisfying…

A Tiny Tape Synth
Afficionados of vintage electric organs will know about the Melotron, an instrument from the 1960s that had pre-recorded sounds on…