The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk (TGIMBOEJ) is a box. It's a box that arrives on your doorstep after you drop your name on a wiki page and wait a good deal of time. It's a box that has electronics junk inside and it works off the premise ...

Recently I've been experimenting with online coding tools, wonderfl and Bespin. Essentially both are IDE's enabling you to write code with syntax highlighting. Wonderfl enables coding for the Flash environment, while Bespin works in the HTML/JavaScript spectrum. There's some pretty immediate differences, Bespin is an attempt at building an environment ...

This was dug out of the basement the other day. This invoice was for our first real computer. (My family technically started by coding Logo and playing Buck Rogers by tape cassette on an Adam) This AST 286 and its where all of the trouble really began. I remember the ...

So the guys at the electronics stores are loving me lately. I'm pretty good at destroying things. While electronics is a reasonably affordable hobby, I've managed to turn it into something a little more extreme. So without further adieu, here's my "listo destructo": ATMega168 IC -- I was using a headless ...

Pixelboard Originally uploaded by Eightlines Sometimes its worth venturing out to a disorganized surplus store to see what you can find. This is my latest little toy. Its a fragment of a pixelboard. Alternate the currents from one pin to the other and you can make the yellow dots flip to black. The ...