Chris Stemple has finished the first custom build of a BMOW project by a reader, with a great-looking build of the Backcountry Logger Mini. Using some spare room on a panel from InternationalCircuits.com, Chris added and removed a few things from…
Ugh, I’ve been going around in circles trying to settle on the best way to add a floppy disk replica to Plus Too. I’ve been thinking about this way too much, and now I’ve got visions of sync bytes dancing in…
While I’ve been working on the Plus Too Macintosh replica, I’ve also collected a few real vintage Macs in the past couple of weeks. Too many, in fact, so it’s getting hard to even walk through my office due to…
I’m making slow progress on Plus Too, unraveling the mysteries of the Mac’s operation little by little. I haven’t really worked on the IWM and floppy components yet, because I’ve been consumed with chasing down other details, and trying to…
Now I’m really getting somewhere with Plus Too: it’s the “question mark disk” screen! If you ever owned a Macintosh with no hard drive, you’ll be very familiar with this screen, because it was shown whenever the computer was turned…
I used to believe that Altera’s FPGA tools were much more hobbyist-friendly than the comparable Xilinx tools, and I frequently bashed the Xilinx tools whenever the topic came up. But after giving them a head-to-head comparison recently, I think I may have…
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