Instant photos are magical. They develop before your eyes. You can share them, gift them, spill water on them, draw on them.

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How do you preserve high scores in an old arcade cabinet when disconnecting the power? Is it possible to inject new high scores into a pinball machine? It was the b-plot of an episode of Seinfield, so it has to be worth doing, leading [matthew venn] down the rabbit hole of FPGAs and memory maps t

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Have you ever looked at your cat and thought “You know, my kitten really needs an electric skateboard!” Probably not, but this seems to have happened to [Kim Pimmel] while looking at his cat MIDI, so he decided to build one.

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A couple years ago, I was sitting at a cafe inside of Google NYC with a few friends. We were talking about things we missed from the 90’s, and I expressed how much I enjoyed 16-bit gaming when I was a kid.

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The Atari 5200 is a vintage gaming system from the early 1980s. At the time I owned a 2600, but I always wanted a 5200. Well, in 2018 I finally decided to find one on eBay and buy it.

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As William Gibson once noted, the future is already here, it just isn’t equally distributed. That’s especially true for those of us with disabilities. [Abishek Singh] wanted to do something about that, so he created a way for the hearing-impaired to use Amazon’s Alexa voice service.

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If you haven’t been following the Nintendo Switch hacking scene, the short version of the story is that a vulnerability was discovered that allows executing code on all versions of the Switch hardware and operating system.

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Capacitive touchscreens and touch sensors ubiquitous on the computers around us now, and they’re starting to be common on DIY projects as well.

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E-waste is becoming an ever increasing problem in our disposable society. In order to promote the idea of a circular economy I have revived a broken laptop (2007 17″ Macbook Pro) by powering it off my smartphone.

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