Retrospective — Barricelli’s Universe
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day …
Technology
Retrocomputing — Gaming on the EDSAC and PDP-1
From the earliest computers came the first computer games.
HOW TO – Peripheral power control with screen saver
Photozz shows you how to turn off your computer peripherals (like a printer) when your screensaver kicks in…. “I tend to leave my computer on all the time. It’s a combination of laziness and need. I sit on line quite a bit, and the kids use it as well. I don’t think I’m unique here. […]
XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 – Try your hands at the nitty-gritty, low-level world of hardcore game development
Try your hands at the nitty-gritty, low-level world of hardcore game development with a new kit we’re carrying in the MAKE store. Twenty years ago, says André LaMothe, game programming was a real art. LaMothe, programmer extraordinaire and probably the best known author in the field of game programming, remembers when 32 kilobytes on machines […]
RGB LED kits
Usually playing around with multi-color LEDs requires some microcontroller programming and a lot of work, Gerry has some great kits to control LEDs (schematics and source included) – “RGBLED Controller – Lets you control the exact color of an RGBLED to be one of 16.7 million possible colors via a serial connection. The mRGBLED controller […]
USB/Serial PIC programmer
If you need to program PICs but don’t have a serial port, here’s a USB programmer from Carl’s electronics for $44 – “USB ports are just about standard on all PC’s now a days. So this is our first PIC programmer using the USB port. Just in case, we have also left a standard serial […]
HOW TO – Make a USB-Powered apple
Randofo writes – “Well, the holiday season is quickly encroaching upon our otherwise uneventful and pleasant existences. Soon most of us will have to sit through many long meals with our family (or someone else’s) and try to keep our sanity. I don’t know about you, but during this time of year I could use […]