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Compaq SLT - Battery Power
With off-the-shelf parts, I've hacked together a battery for my Compaq SLT/286.
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What's in the Garden? 2026 Edition.
Some plants and things growing in my garden this year.
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MP3 Player Part 6 - Validation Board
After a small hiatus - I got back and assembled validation boards for my MP3 player. Now, I will work to shrink and optimize this design, and design a case.
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Compaq SLT - RTC External Battery Mod
The on-board Dallas RTC battery is dead. Let's mod it so settings persist beyond a power cycle!
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AI Experiment: Can Claude build a working x86 VM?
As it turns out, yes - with caveats and lots of debugging time spent!
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File-Less Deno Malware?
Reverse engineering notes from some relatively sophisticated malware.
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Compaq SLT/286 Keyboard Restoration
The keyboard works, but is pretty gross, and the cable is (quite literally) falling apart. Let's restore it!
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PebbleOS Hacking - Adding a Global Watch Preferences Panel
I've always wanted this feature - what would it take to make it work?
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[Part 5] Multi-Core MP3 Player with RP2350
I now have album artwork and song metadata working off of the SD Card, using a program to index the files.
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Reviving a Compaq SLT/268 Laptop
This monster of a laptop is almost 40 years old, what can we make it do?
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Dot Matrix Printer Client
A one day hack to enable easy printing over USB from my mac, to my Dot Matrix Printer.
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RP2040 Desk Clock
A one-day hack to build a desk clock / alarm clock using an KB2040, and some various components I had bought earlier.
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Music Drop: Minimum Viable Product
An experimental album produced using AI tools - capturing the highs and lows of a fictional startup
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One-Day Hack: jsdate.now
A mini hacking project for - js, unix timestamp, and local / utc timestamps.
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