Updates, discoveries and distractions from around the web.
Site of the Week
If reading Google News in a modern browser feels too slick, you can now visit 68K.news which filters the top news stories of the week through the lens of mid-nineties browser technology. No Javscript, no SSL, no animated GIFs.. in fact no images at all. It’s bare, but it’s all there.
Hardware
- Build an AC Soft starter (YT) - Great Scott
- SCAMP homebrew 16bit CPU (Blog) - James Stanley’s rapid progress
- 1-bit Breadboard computer (YT) - Usagi Electric. Adding a halt function
- 6502 Breadboard computer (YT) - othermachines’ adds a monitor program
- Commodore 64 Sixty Clone (YT) - Review by Insanity’s Basement of his system
Image of the Week
More stunning images from the Mars Curiosity Rover
Games
- Danterrifik III (2021 Spectrum game) (YT) - Great looking game
- Galactic Chef Devlog #6 (YT) - A modern game being developed in Godot
- Board games - AwSHUX Conference April 23-25 (YT) - The Shut Up & Sit Down Show returns
Tinkering
- The Secret Life of Components (YT) - Tim Hunkin’s excellent series continues with the subject of switches.
- A 2W Stirling Engine (YT) - A remarkable home built free piston stirling engine.
- The origins of the compact cassette (YT) - Techmoan discusses the history of Phillips’ invention
- Complex coffee carton mechanism (YT) - Big Clive likes his drinks
- Restoring a vintage walkman (YT) - This Does Not Compute
Retro
It’s Not Culture
The Wonder Stuff tend to be remembered for their novelty cover of ‘Dizzy’, but they produced better music, and a couple of years ago released a new albumn, Better Being Lucky which bears listening.