Kyle Hovey is building his own 8-bit Transistor-Tansistor Logic (TTL) computer from scratch. I set out to learn as much as I could about how to build an 8-bit computer and soon found that looking back to the invention of the computer was the way to go. I emailed the creator of the Magic-1 computer […]
Out of the 30 volumes of MAKE we’ve produced over the years, which project holds the record for taking up the most number of pages? The Atari 2600PC by Joe Grand, which spanned a jaw-dropping 35 pages back in Volume 02 (2005). Having worked on MAKE since the beginning, this project is legendary in my […]
Scott Williamson is a former Atari dev who took up the grand challenge of porting Star Castle, a coin-up vector arcade game, to the 2600, 30 years after the fact. He did it. And put it in an amazing clear, custom 2600 cartridge with internal lights that flash during gameplay.
Submitted to Nerd Approved, by reader “Jessica,” who says, “Tech, lights and all mechanics are by Tex Nasty at Remix turntable lab. Paint/Theme art by Ed Hubbs at full blown kustoms.”
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, uploaded by Addie Wagenknecht, who identifies it as a “speed project” by her studio Nortd labs (her partner in which is Stefan Hechenberger), under the auspices of her/their ongoing residency at Carnegie Mellon’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. If you’re confused, just click through…
This fascinating article from Scientific American describes one of the world’s very first numerically-controlled machine tools, a 3-axis Cincinatti Milling Machine Company “Hydro-Tel” painstakingly adapted for programmable electronic control two years before the first commercial silicon transistors.
With about 5,000 3.5″ Amiga floppy disks stored in six wooden crates, Dwellers wanted to free up that physical space, but didn’t want to lose his archive of data. The process of archiving so many disks would be incredibly time consuming and monotonous, so he built the Floppy Autoader.
