Help request! If any reader has experience taking a hobby-scale electronics project to an outside vendor for assembly, I’d love to hear from you. I’ve been talking with the fab in China that makes the Floppy Emu PCBs, and they…
With the missing parts finally on hand, I was able put in some quality soldering time this weekend and build a whole pile of Floppy Emus. If you’ve been waiting, then wait no longer: they’re available now on the Floppy…
Where and how do you find the parts needed to build your hardware? Selling Floppy Emu on a small scale has introduced me to the difficulties of managing a supply chain, and I’ve discovered it’s more difficult than it looks.…
Burning through my 15 minutes of fame, I was the featured guest on this week’s episode of the RetroMacCast show – listen to the episode. RetroMacCast is a weekly podcast about vintage Macintosh systems, software, and collectibles. Hosts James and…
The Apple Hard Disk 20 (HD20) was an external 20 MB hard drive for the Macintosh, introduced in 1985. This was during the earliest days of the Mac’s history, before the introduction of SCSI support, so the HD20 connected to…
Watch this video on YouTube I’ve seen many people look at surface mount chips, with their tiny sub-millimeter pin spacing, and assume it’s impossible to hand solder them without special tools and equipment. I used to believe it myself, but…
Introducing Floppy Emu version 1.2: it’s blue, because blue makes it go faster! Buy yours now from the Floppy Emu product page. Version 1.2 is a minor update that cleans up a few details. You may have noticed that the…
US Post Office, what are you doing to me? The USPS Click-n-Ship service has always been cumbersome, but it’s the only practical way to mail packages outside the USA via First Class Mail, which is the only way to send…
It’s time for a change. I’ve made a lot of interesting software in my life, and built some fun hardware projects, but none of it was especially useful in the big scheme of things. The past year has seen lots…
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