Fixing things, bringing old platforms back to useful life, and learning about how technology works.
See also: Hardware Restoration projects
Raspberry Pi
The tiny-but-capable Raspberry Pi has almost infinite uses. These are just a few of our Pi projects:
Scoreboard Project
When we realized the electronic scoreboard for the youth group’s air hockey table was beyond repair, we decided to make our own using a Raspberry Pi and our new 3D Printer.Blog Post Source
DreamPi networking for Sega Dreamcast
Ben’s instrumented IOT refrigerator
Apple II/Early Macintosh
Nerdy nostalgia at its best, the early Apple computers are a source of endless fascination — and repair projects!
Networking with modern computers (vintage computer friendly article)
HP/Palm webOS
Stopwatch App
I taught myself the Mojo framework to build my first app for the now-dead Palm/HP webOS platform.Download Source
Nightmoves App
To bring some modern features to webOS, I built an app that controls environment settings at scheduled times.Download Source
ScummVM for webOS
The last version of ScummVM for webOS was almost a decade old, so I figured out how to compile a newer build and released it as homebrew.Download Source
myWatch
Attempts to update and clean-up a Pebble smart watch app for webOS devices.Download Source
SDK Restoration Effort
Working from Internet Archive material, I’ve cleaned-up and modernized some of the webOS PDK/SDK documentation.Visit Site Source
VisualStudio Code Extensions
A collection of scripts to make webOS development and testing better integrated into Visual Studio Code.Download
NeXTStep/OpenStep
The grandfather of macOS, iOS and everything in between, NeXT remains one of my favorite retro platforms.