Blog
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Why American Makers Don’t Trust Chinese Brands (And How to Fix That)
In June of this year, a small startup out of Hong Kong attempted to launch the HELIX 5-axis desktop CNC mill on Kickstarter. By the time the campaign ended, HELIX had only raised $6,181—less than half of the modest funding goal—from just four backers. Why did the HELIX campaign fail so spectacularly?
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Dead E. Ruxpin: cassette-tape controlled animatronic
An animatronic bear controlled by cassette tapes!
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NASTIER: ZimaBlade Redundant Micro NAS
Instructions on how to assemble and configure my NASTIER redundant micro NAS system for ZimaBlade single-board servers.
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Subscriber Board
SubscriberBoard is a four-digit, seven-segment display scaled up to a size that makes it perfect for wall art! It connects to a Home Assistant home automation server and can show whatever four-digit numbers that server can send via MQTT.
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’80s Video Phone
I stumbled across concept art from the 1980s of a Videotex telephone concept and turned it into a real, functional retro-style video phone!
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LuvNoots: Wall-Mounted ePaper SMS Display
Do you want a way to leave messages for your loved ones, but you’re actively boycotting 3M and can’t use Post-it Notes? Then this is the solution for you! LuvNoots is a wall-mounted display that shows text messages on a large ePaper screen. It also shows the weather, because IoT. Any plain SMS text message…
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TurboNES: a Simple RetroPie Setup
Years ago, I designed this adapter so that I could use a reproduction ZX Spectrum case to build a RetroPie gaming console. Fast forward a couple of years and I had a roommate that thought it was really cool. That former roommate (now a former friend) had a birthday coming up, so I made him…
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KaboomBox: an RFID 8-Track Player
I built an RFID-controlled music player in the body of a vintage Panasonic “TNT” 8-track player. Full build details are available on Hackster here.
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Termi2 – a Typewriter That Answers Your Questions
Termi2 is a vintage TI Silent 700 (Model 745) with an added device of my own design that lets users type questions and receive printed answers from Wolfram Alpha.
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Comparatron – DIY Digital Optical Comparator
Comparatron is my own digital optical comparator design. It is open source and anyone can build it and use the software interface I programmed.