The Will to Power a Gramophone
BoingBoing leads us to this delightful apparatus, a psychically-powered gramophone.
While some may wish to remain skeptical, others desire to fly forward, eyes open, into the brave new future!
We Made It
How to Make a Monster in the comfort and convenience of your Home Workshop. Or something like that.
How Computer Components were MEANT to be made
8 Bits and 3 Channels
A tip of the stovepipe to my brother-in-law, who tipped me off to CNN’s retrospective look at the Commodore 64.
A technological artifact is the related article links, below, one of which links to a 1985 fortune mag story on the Koala Pad.
Metafilter has a well-filled C64 thread well-filled with creamy C64 goodness.
Wired has a nice 8-image C64 gallery from “when men were men, headbands were fashionable, and programs could take half an hour just to load.”
And just last month Lemonodor pointed us towards a two implementations. Which brings to mind this curious lisp/c64 conflation.
Surely, where there lies Lisp, an Emacs could not be far behind? Well, no, not in 64K, I guess. Oh, well.
Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope Repurposed for Classic Gaming
An enterprising gentlemen has re-purposed a standard oscilloscope to play original vector arcade games.
We could only be more impressed had he used nixie tubes.