PiGlass v2 is a DIY wearable that runs Linux. It has bone conduction audio, a 720p display and a 5mp POV camera controlled with a Bluetooth gamepad button. It runs Kodi, Retropie and camera related Python programs. | Continue reading
PyPortal MP3 player application will play a playlist of MP3 files stored on the SDCard. Use the base Winamp theme or choose a custom one and convert it to use on your PyPortal. | Continue reading
Could your 90s OS boot in 10 seconds, use dual processors, and play multiple video files at once (without stuttering)? BeOS could! First released in 1995, BeOS was way ahead of its time and was almost purchased by Apple to be the basis for OS X. Like most products ahead of their … | Continue reading
Install OPENSTEP, the successor of NeXTSTEP and the basis for Mac OS X, on a Virtualbox VM to see what it was like to use in the 90s. It's not particularly useful these days, but it is fun to see what it was like and how it influenced later software. Score points for authenticity … | Continue reading
Sun produced high-performance Unix workstations in the late 80s through the 2000s. They were powerful and expensive, out of reach for most mere mortals. Let's build our own and see what it was like to use! We're going to use QEMU to emulate a SPARC machine, the architecture that … | Continue reading
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Feathers! This guide will tell you all about the dozens of options you have to build your next Feather project. | Continue reading
The Brain Machine provides you with a fun, easy way to meditate, all the while being very photogenic! They work with lights and sounds that pulse at a 14-minute-long meditation sequence of brainwave frequencies. Your brain synchronizes to this meditation sequence, and you meditat … | Continue reading
3D Print, laser cut or CNC mill your own mounting plate for the CYBERDECK HAT for the Raspberry Pi 400. | Continue reading
You can hack s wearable video display to make your own 3D Printed glasses-mounted wearable computer, powered with a Raspberry Pi. | Continue reading
This project uses a laptop's built-in camera to identify various cereal and marshmallows. The computer then sorts them based on a model you train. A Circuit Playground Express communicates with the computer to decide when to sort which marshmallow/cereal via a micro servo. | Continue reading
Magic Cap was an operating system for PDAs (smartphone ancestors) with a lot of features that look very familiar today. We'll check it out, but the emulator runs on old Mac OS, so we need to install another emulator just to get to that one. | Continue reading
The original idea for the Newton was more like an iPad - a portable computer with a big screen, lots of memory, and capable of advanced graphics. What they ended up building wasn't very close to that but it was a pretty cool Personal Digital Assistant, a term coined by Apple CEO … | Continue reading
Would you like to use Scheme to program your M4 board? Don't want to give up the convenience that CircuitPython provides? This guide dusts off a Scheme in Python implementation that Peter Norvig wrote some time ago, converts it to run on CircuitPython, and adds features to take a … | Continue reading