One of the things that comes with working on a lot of projects is failure.  Not everything works.  I've had my share of projects that fo...

I often check the recycle pile on the loading dock at work.  I sometimes find smallish hard drives, old laptops, and various other bits and...

I like retro computers.  A lot.  While working on my BL-328 project , I snagged my old Tandy TRS-80 Model 102 portable computer, to use as a...

I recently decided to work on a physically small project. I decided to take the sort of ethics of the classic computer systems from the 19...

Amiga 1000 computer (1985) with an Amiga 3000 "pregnant" mouse. One of the fun things about owning retro computers is that yo...

There are a lot of hacks of Rubik's style puzzle cubes out there.  Many of them require modifications of the shapes of the pieces themse...

(originally posted to the Interlock Blog, September 26, 2012 ) A few years ago, I put in an order at Sparkfun, which included 8 1-Watt Lu...