The Old Calculator Web Museum
The Old Calculator Web Museum is a treasure trove of images, specs, advertisements, and articles about the calculators of days gone by.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Lego Turing Machine
This is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands). They built it for CWI’s exposition “Turings Erfenis” in honor of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth on 23 June 1912. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who […]
Introducing the Gooseberry Board
Seems like there are a number of low power ARM SoC boards hitting the market recently. If the Beagle Bone, Raspberry Pi, and Via APC piqued your interest, you might want to also take a look at the recently announced Gooseberry. It’s an Allwinner A10 ARM SoC with 512MB RAM, 4GB onboard flash (up to 16GB with MicroSD), b/g/n Wifi, and goes for £40
Hacktastic Horizontal Helical 3D Display
Besides being a generally cool idea, French inventor Michel David’s volumetric display prototype gets serious wacky-contraption style points. Michel puts the cost of his machine at €40, and though his results are definitely proof-of-concept quality, I have to agree with Mike Szczys that the prototype itself “looks like a DaVinci sketch.”
Square Reader Plays Audio Tape on iPod Touch
Using a slightly modified Square mag stripe reader, an RCA MODEL SRT-403 Tape Recorder, an iPod Touch, and requisite audio software, Evan Long got a modern digital media player to record and play back an obsolete paper reel-to-reel format from the late 1940s.
New MacBook Most Unrepairable Laptop Ever?
In an opinion piece on Wired, iFixit’s Kyle Wiens, who tore down a new MacBook with Retina display and declares it: “Unfixable, unhackable, untenable.”
Meet 5 Basic Survival Needs with a Busted Cellphone
The Art of Manliness has a post up about dismantling a broken cellphone in order to mine it for useful components that can keep you alive after you get stranded in the middle of nowhere. Tools include a compass out of magnet paired with ferrous metal wire, a survival signal mirror out of a layer of screen, and a small-game snare out of headphone wire. But my favorite is the arrowhead spear made from a circuit board.