A 4-Player Arcade Hidden Inside a Coffee Table
[Ed] from 50% Awesome on YouTube wanted to build a retro gaming system with a decent screen size, but doesn’t have a great deal of space to site it in,
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Squeeze Over a Minute Of Movie Filming Onto a 35mm Still Cartridge
There’s an allure to shooting film in the digital age which isn’t quite satisfied by digital filters for your smartphone camera. Aside from the technical challenge of working with a
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Nuke Your Own Uranium Glass Castings in the Microwave
Fair warning: if you’re going to try to mold uranium glass in a microwave kiln, you might want to not later use the oven for preparing food. Just a thought.
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IBM Selectric Typewriters Finally Get DIY Typeballs
IBM’s Selectric line of typewriters were quite popular in the 1960s, thanks in part to an innovation called the typeball which allowed for easy font changes on a single machine.
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Two-Tube Spy Transmitter Fits in the Palm of Your Hand
It’s been a long time since vacuum tubes were cutting-edge technology, but that doesn’t mean they don’t show up around here once in a while. And when they do, we
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Magic 8 Ball Provides Tech Support
ChatGPT might be making the news these days for being able to answer basically any question it’s asked, those of us who are a little older remember a much simpler
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A Medium Format Camera From Scratch
Film photography may now be something so outdated as to be unknown to our younger readers, but as an analogue medium it has enjoyed a steady enthusiast revival. There is
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Retro Computer Enclosure Without the Sacrifice
The unique look of early desktop computer systems remains popular with a certain segment of geekdom, so it’s no great surprise when we occasionally see a modern hacker or maker
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Bend it Like a Carpenter
We’ve always known, in theory, there are ways to bend wood, but weren’t really clear on how it worked. Now that we’ve seen [Totally Handy]’s recent video, we’ve learned a
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Mod, Repair and Maintain Your Cassette Tapes With 3D Printed Parts
The benefit of 3D printers is that they have made it relatively easy to reproduce just about any little plastic thing you might happen to break. If you’re one of
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