Pot Pourri

November 10, 2003 | Link of the Day | By: Mark VandeWettering

I spent the weekend in the company of other individuals of like (and considerably different) mind, and thought I’d provide some links to some interesting projects.

Trevor Blackwell has built his own balancing scooter. I got to ride this little marvel, and it works rather well. It cost about $2000 to make, if you weren’t interested in paying full price, you could probably scrounge many of the components for less. It’s a pretty nifty gadget, and Trevor provides most of the details you need to duplicate his effort.

Jeri Ellsworth showed off her C-One, a Commodore 64 implemented in an Altera FPGA. She’s interested in making it potentially run as other classic 6502 machines as well, like the Apple II and the Atari 400. Nifty work!

Don Knuth translated the classic Adventure game into a literate program using CWEB. You can get the original
CWEB source too. Nifty.

Probably some more stuff to come later.