Resurrecting an XT

The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry. At least that’s what we’d tell ourselves if we couldn’t find a 30-year-old computer monitor. [Andrew] picked up an old IBM XT on eBay recently and tried to get the video working. He hasn’t seen any success yet, but the way he goes about solving this problem is … Read the rest

Freakyphone has a puzzle for you!

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[Mime] likes to make puzzles and games for his friends to play, often using recycled electronics to construct them. He had been contemplating a sound-based game for some time when he came across an old rotary phone at a garage sale that would be perfect for what he had in mind.

He calls his creation the Freakyphone, and the … Read the rest

Sustainability Hacks: Bio-diesel motorcycle speed record

Sometimes you don’t need a lot of horsepower to win a speed record. In a fluke of no one else competing in the alt fuel class,  [John]‘s biodiesel motorcycle set a new land speed record at the LTA event last summer.

[John]‘s bike is a junkyard 1978 Kawasaki KZ400. The stock engine was replaced with a Chinese knock off of … Read the rest