Recent Projects

Building a mechanical television with parts only from the 1920s. Focusing on simplicity.

Mechanical Television - 1920s parts

paul-kocyla Paul Kocyla

ZX Spectrum-compatible homemade retrocomputer based on Z80 CPU + discrete RAM and ROM + Raspberry RP2350B as ULA/chipset

Z80 + RP2350B ZX-compatible homebrew retrocomputer

Home_LAB

rhea-rae Rhea Rae

Arduino + Franklin oscillator

Turning Impedance into Frequency: An LC Experiment

It uses free API key with Live ADS-B data, presented in a beautiful visual display with smooth animation, and a custom-built radar interface

Air Traffic Radar using ESP32 + ADS-B Data

mircemk mircemk

immurok is a small wireless fingerprint authentication device for Mac and Linux desktops

immurok - a wireless fingerprint auth key

Wearable BLE-MIDI gestural instrument: 12-notes, 20 scales, aftertouch, flex glissando, X/Y accelerometer, LED display, patch save/load

SNEAKY GESTURES V2

michel-morin Michel Morin

I build a model railway controller using analog PWM & block detection with manual and automatic control, and I evaluated the passing siding.

Model Railway Controller using Analog PWM

mitsuru-yamada Mitsuru Yamada

OCRd and typeset as html where possible. A work in progress.

Applix 1616 Documentation

A probe to measure temperature using an oscilloscope.

Thermocouple O-Scope Probe

A replica of the PDP-10 (KA10) mainframe computer

PiDP-10

DirtyJTAG+XVC-Server on RP2040

DIRTY-XVC

Browser-based PCB reverse engineering suite. Digitize boards from photos, map components, trace nets, and stitch images. 100% Local-first.

PCB ReTrace

dev-lab dev-lab

'70s microcomputer meets '80s handheld game

Blinkencard - Pocket Altair 8800

An open hardware bench tool that plugs into your CI: sensor sim, CAN, analog I/O, power control, and a Python SDK with pytest integration

BenchPod

edward-viaene Edward Viaene

Byte magazine project examined to see if could be modernised as a USB device.

ZAP-A-PAL-USB