I have always wanted to build a very high end Batocera emulation rig that can run everything from an Atari 2600/C64 all the way to up a Playstation 3. This is what I came up with. Case and main parts The whole build is based around the NR200P, a nice SFF ITX case that...
I discovered a big C64 Collection with all sorts of projects in it, can be found here. I couldn't help myself but to build another SD2IEC. Build The SD2IEC LP is a much nicer build than my other one as it plugs into the tape port for the power and has a pig tail for...
My obsession with Thinkpads started with a run to the Tip Shop and spotting a pair of laptop old Thinkpads, and it only snow balled from there. Starting off with a R50 and R51 The pair were an R50 and R51e, with the later having a broken screen. My hope was that I...
After realising that the Core 2 Quad Xeon rig I built a few years earlier was totally bottlenecking the GTX Titan in my Dual Booted Windows XP / Windows 10 Gaming Rig / workshop PC I started doing some digging and found out that one of the last platforms to support...
It was a pain to solder surface mount parts on small boards and the hot air gun is annoying to use for really small parts and the reball machine was too big, enter the Solder Reflow Plate a Atmega 328p based reflow solution. Reflow Plate PCBs The project files can be...
Down the SCSI rabbit hole I went when the drives in my Macintosh SE/30 and Macintosh Color Classic both died. I did a big order of V1 and V2 PCB's on different occasions in the hope of making a bunch for my friends and community members which also covers some of my...
The pickup Trolling Trademe one night I did my usual filter of 'faulty' and this came up in the search results. It was a Sound Blaster X 2.1 Sound System at $1 reserve, I placed a $1 bid on it and woke up in the morning to find that I won it for a whole $1. A bit of...
The Trademe find that started it all This is what started this project, a $38 trademe buy for an AdvanTech 486 on a Card. Listed as Untested with a 486DX2 and 8MB of ram, how could I go wrong. I had a DOS machine already but I liked the idea of an ultra compact but...
Finding the Right MT32Pi Hat Since nobody can afford a real Roland MT32 a bunch of smart people had figured out how to use a Raspberry Pi to emulate it as a hardware device, which was much more in my price range. I did some digging and found that most Pi hats were for...
Laying out the parts I have a really old test bench that came with a motherboard I bought years ago but I wanted to some more modular and more sturdy that could work for both modern and vintage setups. It wasn't until I came across this video from Tech Tangents that I...