Open Hardware: Retro, Small Computing, and More
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Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 2
In my previous post the machine was disassembled and the battery removed. Since then I’ve been coming back to this machine on and off over the last week. In this post we dig a bit further to see if we can get the machine running.
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Keeping an eye on nocturnal visitors | HackSpace #66
Something keeps waking my dog up in the middle of the night. That would be fine, except the dog keeps waking me up in the middle of the night. This is not fine. To find out what this is, I resolved to set up a wildlife camera to monitor the back garden.
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Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam
A good friend of mine this week was clearing out stuff and handed me an old logitech QuickCam Express webcam, this was actually a pretty serious nostalgic moment as it happened to also be the same model as my first webcam, so thinking it could be funny at some work meetings to have an “early 2000s” vibe I took it home.
However the QuickCam Express has not had drivers since Windows XP it seems. I attached it to my Linux machine, and no module was loaded, and when I then attached it to my Windows 10 VM I was presented with an unknown device. Meaning I was out of luck for official support for this thing.
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Machined Aluminum Pen
Still, not bad for a first try!
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[Corrected] Raspberry Pi Pico GameBoy Cable Sniffer Emulates Pokémon Trading
Breadcodes is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to emulate Game Boy functions for Pokémon and can even print images to an original Game Boy Printer.
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Audio development board powered by ESP32 module
The WVR audio development is a small embedded device featuring a ESP32 module and a 32-bit stereo DAC from Texas Instruments. This open-source device supports MIDI and it can be configured from a Web GUI for convenience.