Every pirate wants to be an admiral. Though comcom rescued Apple from a monopolist’s sneaky attempt to drive it out of business, Apple – now a three trillion dollar company – has repeatedly attacked comcom when it was applied to Apple’s products. When Apple did comcom, that was progress. When someone does comcom to Apple, that’s piracy.
I was a huge fan of the EV3 (which never arrived) and there was always talk that Morgan would electrify the Super3… the odds seem to be a little better today (🤞🤞): [Morgan] has revealed its latest development vehicle, XP-1: a Super 3 with an electric heart. Where the production Super 3 has a 1.5…
bbAir is a small desktop device that is able to display simple graphics, like alphanumeric characters and emojis, as air bubbles. Those air bubbles start at the base of the device and then float to the top, like the pixels on a scrolling LED matrix display turned on its side. It has 19 columns and…
https://chibitronics.com/2023/12/06/how-to-make-light-up-christmas-candle-card/
We have occasionally featured vacuum tube computers here at Hackaday and we’ve brought you many single board computers, but until now it’s probable we haven’t brought you a machine that combined both of these things. Now thanks to [Usagi Electric] we can see just such a board, in the form of his UE-0.1, a roughly 260…
On one hand then, this is home-built PC like any other, assembled from off-the-shelf-parts. But on the other it’s far from normal, for despite its simplicity it forms a very usable small form factor device. The Akruvia Una keyboard uses tactile switches so maybe it’s not the machine to type your thesis on, but other…