Archive for category: Hacking

Wow! A computer built from 12v relays…

January 20, 2006 | Hacking, Hardware, Link of the Day | By: Mark VandeWettering

This is just completely nuts, an 8 bit computer constructed entirely from 12 volt relays. It consumes 12 amps at 13.5 volts (160 watts). Hilarious. [tags]Retrocomputing,Hacks[/tags]

Optical mouse based scanner

January 7, 2006 | General, Hacking | By: Mark VandeWettering

Courtesy of hack-a-day, a student did something which I thought was rather clever, he disassembled an optical mouse, and hooked the tiny image sensor (18×18 pixels) directly to the parallel port of his computer, and wrote a program to read out the results. I can’t immediately think of what use this would be, but I […]