Tube Computer
Four hundred sixty tubes, and the software it runs is an airship flight sim. Mike's Tube Computer is an 8-bit machine built on NOR-based logic, the same approach Hackaday points…
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Tamura Lumitime Clock
A player piano for neon, and I want one... The Tamura Lumitime looks like a digital clock: a red 7-segment display, glowing. Mark Furneaux took one apart, and Hackaday covered…
Hindenburg: The Gas Nobody Would Sell
In 1937 the largest aircraft ever to fly, with its sister ship, crossed the Atlantic with a dining room, a promenade, and a smoking lounge. It had been planned around helium, the gas that lifts and cannot burn. It flew on hydrogen.
Honest Hardware in Pine and Iron Pipe
Pine boards and black iron pipe, and I'd still call it the most honest PC I've seen this year. Dante Mutti spent two years on Hydropower, and three decisions earn…
Meridian Orrery: One Motor, Eight Planets
I'll take one stepper over eight motors every time. That's the Meridian Orrery by illusionmanager, as Hackaday reported on May 1. All eight planets, the Sun and the Moon are…
Nuvistor 555 Timer
Glorious, and absurd... I'm saying that as a compliment. Eric Schlaepfer, who posts as TubeTimeUS, built a 555 timer out of eight tetrode nuvistors, and Hackaday covered it this month…
The Careful Mistake
In November 1988 a graduate student wrote a program to answer a simple question: how big is this internet we have built? It stole nothing. It deleted nothing. Its entire purpose was to exist, spread, and count.
The Computer That Fits In A Mint Tin
Salim Benbouziyane crammed a working computer into an Altoids tin, keyboard included. Comfortable? He says no, the keys barely travel. I'll take a cramped keyboard I can carry in a…
Rogue Makers and Air Pirates
Now that's a theme name with some swagger to it. Clockwork Alchemy runs Rogue Makers and Air Pirates for three days in Redwood City, October 16 to 18, and I'd…
The Two Languages That Lost a Mars Probe
On 23 September 1999, a NASA orbiter arrived at Mars after nine months and 400 million miles. Nothing aboard it was broken. Everything worked. It fired its engine on schedule, behaved impeccably — and passed behind the planet forty-nine seconds early.