[Cliff Miller] pointed out this incredible project from 2004. [John Pultorak]‘s journey began in late 2000 when he decided to build a 60′s or 70′s era minicomputer. While gathering technical documentation, he found some interesting information on the Apollo Guidance Computer and felt that was the way to go. The AGC was the first integrated circuit computer ever built. Designed … Read the rest
Apollo Guidance Computer clone
August 31, 2008 By 9 Comments
Modular portable system
August 30, 2008 By 6 Comments
Reader [John Grayson], known for his multiconsole portable, has constructed a brand new portable. Not liking the controls or the tethered nature of retro TV games he decided to build a modular portable system. He built a custom system that uses cartridges created from TV game systems. The device has a 5.4″ screen and two Canon batteries for … Read the rest
HTC Dream Android phone
August 30, 2008 By 16 Comments
Engadget has a full gallery of the new HTC Dream, the first production phone running Android. It will be available on T-Mobile some time this Fall (missing features notwithstanding).… Read the rest
MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson former hacker
August 30, 2008 By 35 Comments
MySpace users are very familiar with the visage of their first “friend” and MySpace cofounder [Tom Anderson], but did you ever wonder what he used to do before he became everyone’s friend? TechCrunch’s investigative reporting revealed that [Tom] was a hacker in the eighties who hacked into the Chase Manhattan Bank computer system, which attracted the attention of the FBI. … Read the rest
Hacking a scale to test rocket motors
August 29, 2008 By 7 Comments
[David Steeman] sent us this project. He uses a consumer scale to measure rocket engine thrust. He wanted to be able to map the thrust curve of his homemade rocket motors to determine whether they are meeting the design goals. It does this by measuring the force applied by the rocket engine via a microcontroller that records it in … Read the rest
1100 barrel paintball gun
August 29, 2008 By 33 Comments
[Adam] and [Jamie] from Mythbusters built a paintball gun with 1100 barrels as some graphics card marketing gimmick. It’s a formidable beast, but we’re sure it takes forever to prep.
[via Laughing Squid]… Read the rest
Tiny cubic PC
August 29, 2008 By 12 Comments
We’ve been watching the progress of the Space Cube since 2004, but PC Pro managed to get their hands on it first. Developed by the Shimafuji Corporation, it comes with 16 megabytes of flash memory and a version of Red Hat is run off a 1 gigabyte CompactFlash card. The design of the Space Cube is pretty minimal, … Read the rest
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