Sylphide OS Turns Cheap Microcontrollers Into Retro Desktop PCsA 1985 home computer had a few hundred kilobytes of RAM and a mouse-driven desktop was a luxury. Today a microcontroller that costs less than a lunch has more raw speed than those machines, yet most h1h ago · 2 min readcircuitrocks.hashnode.dev
Weekend Build: An Intel 8048 Conference Badge from 1976Got a free Saturday and a drawer of old logic chips? A 1976 Intel 8048 can become a name badge in one weekend, and mwfeurtado's build shows how little hardware it takes. The goal was a badge for the V7h ago · 2 min readcircuitrocks.hashnode.dev
OuijaCNC: A Self-Playing Ouija Board on Raspberry Pi and ESP32Magnet-driven automation keeps showing up in odd corners of the maker world: self-playing chessboards, kinetic desk toys, and now a haunted talking board. The OuijaCNC build on the Raspberry Pi blog t20h ago · 2 min readcircuitrocks.hashnode.dev
TWEACMAN: A Pocket WAV Player With Tape-Style Scrubbing KnobsA tape deck lets you grab the reel and hunt for a spot by hand. Most digital players give you a thin progress bar instead. Maker Mykle decided a weekend-style hack could fix that, and the result is TW1d ago · 3 min readcircuitrocks.hashnode.dev
Powered by Raspberry Pi: Photo Booths, Audio DSP and TabletsA party in France wraps up, two people fold a 35 kg photo booth flat, and a print slides out in under 30 seconds with a Raspberry Pi 5 running the whole show. That scene comes from the latest "Powered1d ago · 2 min readcircuitrocks.hashnode.dev
