Simon Jansen, he of Star Wars ASCIImation, the TARDIS MAME console, Beer Brewing Bender fame, was recently inspired by the 1920s “Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator” that he’d sent us the link to some weeks back. He decided to try and build one. I made my own version, using some brass bits and pieces, a […]
The perfect accessory for zoning out to Netflix with, this oddly appropriate iPad dock modeled after an early ’80s CRT television set was designed by Jonas Damon, creative director for Frog Design’s New York office. It comes complete with grainy television snow screensaver, though a scrambled pay TV signal would add a touch more realism if I recall correctly.
Hey, just hanging out – thanks for stopping by – here are my CPUs, no big deal. Here’s a nice collection of CPU throughout the ages.
Geek Dad John Knight built this “Electromagnetic Geospacial Globe and Remote View with Obligatory Goggles” with RFID tags and reader (Touchatag) to remote-control Google Earth on a steampunk’d tablet computer. Oh, and the goggles? They don’t do anything special. Yet. John will be showing how he built it and talking about it this morning at […]
During the Second World War, Mr. Warther put aside his personal projects to make commando-style fighting knives for American servicemen. He was not a government contractor and therefore had to scrounge for materials; even so, with the help of the community, he was able to deliver more than 1,100 knives. He was a pacifist, but wanted American servicemen to have access to the best equipment. He was working on the knife pictured above when, in 1945, news reached him that the war had ended. He put the knife down, unfinished, and never picked it up again. The Warther family treasures it to this day.
You may have seen this little beauty floating through the interwebs. It’s an Altoids Tin-based COSMAC Elf, built around the classic RCA COSMAC 1802 microprocessor. It’s the prototype to a kit that Lee Hart has been developing. P. Todd Decker (Overland Park, KS) sent us a link to this video of his build of the […]
Nederlander Jan Ridders, who is something of a legend in the model engineering world, built what he calls his Thermo Pulse Mobile without really understanding how it works, basing his model solely on a YouTube video demonstrating another one in operation. At first it didn’t work. Then…
