February 2021
Reviving old keyboards for ArduinoAlthough connecting a USB keyboard to an Arduino-type microcontroller without addition hardware can be tricky, there are no such problems with many 90s keyboards. This article is about giving new life to old keyboards, by using them as input devices for microcontroller projects.
Categories: Arduino, embedded computing, retrocomputing
Building a custom mechanical keyboard from scratchThere are many kits and plans available for constructing miniature mechanical keyboards. But what do you do if you want a layout the nobody else seems to use? Build it from scratch.
Categories: Arduino, embedded computing, C
More like Windows every dayThe ease of installation and use of modern desktop Linux distributions comes at a price. I review a couple of low-complexity alternatives to mainstream Linux distributions: Alpine and Devuan.
Categories: general computing, Linux
Why the fascination with retrocomputing?Why do so many IT professionals like to tinker with vintage computers and software?
Categories: general computing, retrocomputing
The planet Vulcan: a cautionary tale that deserves to be better knownWhy was the non-existent planet Vulcan so frequently sighted by astronomers in the nineteenth century, and what can contemporary scientists and science students learn from this episode?
Categories: science and technology, education