Too Many Macs!
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…
Category Bit Bucket
Miscellaneous distractions and diversions.
Soldering, with Profanity
Hot diggety damn! I believe I’ve successfully soldered the Max II in its cruel 100-pin package with 0.5 mm pin spacing. At least, I’ve assembled enough of the board to connect it to a JTAG programmer, program an LED blinky…
Low-Power LCD Smackdown
Sometimes it seems like there are a million different LCDs you might use with your microcontroller project, and deciding on one can be hard. Once you’re ready to move beyond a basic text display, you’ll find graphic displays have a…
Living on the Edge
I just applied 4 years worth of WordPress updates in one go, without making any backups first. What could go wrong?
Maker Faire 2010
Ah, Maker Faire. It’s part garage inventions, part Burning Man reruns, part techno-supermarket, and all awesome. Can it possibly be a year already since Maker Faire 2009, where BMOW was featured in Wired, Slashdot, Digg, etc. and I talked myself…
Cheetos Guitar Amp
Random project for a Saturday afternoon: a guitar amp in a Cheetos Crunchy can. I followed a modified version of Make Magazine’s cracker box amp design, which uses an LM386 power amplifier and a few passive components. The amp has…
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