The Joys of Restoring Vintage Tools
It’s fun to find vintage tools at flea markets and garage sales, restore them, and add them to your collection.
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8 Crazy Keyboards That Will Trick Out Your Typing
A custom keyboard could be right at your fingertips, so why are you still using that basic keyboard that came with your computer?
Learn Electronics from the World’s Oldest Drum Machine
A new video series uses an obsolete drum machine to teach everything from voltage to vacuum tubes.
Before and After: Vintage Radio with Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi has truly opened up all kinds of possibilities in custom entertainment. One of the most fascinating possibilities lies in replacing the guts of a vintage radio or other media device and enhancing its abilities while keeping the aesthetics of yesterday. Gordon, who studied computer science and works in the semiconductor industry, decided […]
This Nixie Tube Speedometer Gives Retro-Futuristic Life to a 70s Motorcycle
Nixie tubes are interesting pieces of equipment. They have a “retro-futuristic” look that has great appeal to electronics hackers.
48 Solenoids Transform This 1960s Typewriter into a Computer Printer
Several years ago, Chris Gregg, a Tufts University lecturer and computer engineer, received a letter from his friend Erica. This wouldn’t be so unusual, except that it was typed on an actual typewriter, not a printer. Gregg is a fan of vintage typewriters, but, as with myself, makes many mistakes, requiring a functioning backspace key. […]
How-To: Mid-Century Vintage Day Gloves
If you’re a fan of the coordinated hats, gloves, shoes, and handbags of bygone eras, you’ll love this vintage pattern for sewing mid-century day gloves!
