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Hackshack.us make.break.hack.tinker.learn.share https://www.extra-life.org/participants/JamiesHackShack I like to tinker with stuff. Some old stuff, some new stuff. Fixing broken things, sometimes breaking things.
New video: @hackerboxes.bsky.social 0123 "Matrix" is up! HUB75 64x32 RGB LED matrix+Raspberry Pi Pico 2. Complex under the hood, but easy when you're standing on the shoulders of giants.(@adafruit.com Protomatter) Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring this one
youtu.be/ylR5WNxnWPU
screen shot of defrag utility for sd cards
Second #MARCHintosh project is up - a defrag utility for SD Cards (who had new defrag utility on their 2026 bingo card?)
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/new-...
Lciii club woot!
Kicking off #MARCHintosh with the smallest Mac ever: the Pico Micro Mac!
Check out the video on Level 2 Jeff: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOS...
Check out Ron's new updated guide. It is fantastic. Also, if you don't have a classic Mac kicking around and want to get your #marchintosh on, be sure to check out infinitemac.org
That's what I did before I snagged my LC and pico micro Mac. (Woops fixed typo)
The first legit holy shit celebrity I ever met, and to this day one of the kindest. Classy, hilarious and uniquely talented. I don’t have anything else to say. I just love this man.
Yessir thanks! I was just combing back through this again earlier. I need to see if I was given access to the spreadsheet. 😄
Many thanks to @engineersneedart.com for this entertaining discussion about the Macintosh classic Pararena!
Let's Chat with John Calhoun (about Pararena) - Soft Dorothy Software & Apple Computer #MARCHintosh
youtu.be/QpK6fYYr-6o
"Will 2026 be the year the official #MARCHintosh bsky account gets 1,000 followers? We asked these 140 random people on the street their opinion..."
@itsmarchintosh.bsky.social
Sorry for the silly question, so this doesn't establish a direct outside network connection but handles the special sauce for it to be shared via the Mac it is connected to? Otherwise you can't just share your connected printer?
The insides of an InageWriter II dot matrix printer with a PCB inside - that’s the ImageScribbler card.
Want a hardware-y way to get your ImageWriter II up on #GlobalTalk in time for #MARCHintosh? Last year I reverse engineered Apple’s LocalTalk option card and made the design available, naming it ImageScribbler: github.com/polpo/images...
and pre-built ones are for sale: jcm-1.com/product/imag...
Someone is REALLY unhappy that I woke them up after too many years in storage for #MARCHintosh . 😬
Thanks! I'll need it! 😄
I think in some instances a @bluescsi.com can emulate a scsi Ethernet adapter via the raspi wifi.
As far as a guide for #globaltalk check out the one linked here. marchintosh.com/globaltalk.h...
Maybe some of the folks who are actively using it can chime in here. They are awesome.
Hell or high water I will get this LC on #globaltalk this #marchintosh if approved! 😄
Date and time on an AmberCRT Macintosh, it gives a warm glow
Give github.com/retrotheory/... BigMaclock a try, It supports dynamic pixel sizing so you can run it on a larger screen. #MARCHintosh
A Macintosh SE/30 showing the Finder with a number of different AppleTalk zones, with my zone “the polpo zone” selected, with a printer called ImageScribbler selected
A dot matrix printout on tractor feed paper. It’s a letter/memo. Contents: Apple Computer Inc., Adranced Technology Group News Dear Apple Evangelists, During the past several weeks, it has come to my attention an extraordinary amount of information and rumor about Apple has been appearing in local newspapers, trade and business publications and posted in on-line newsgroups. Although there's usually some truth in most everything that's printed about Apple, rumors both inside and outside of Apple are surfacing more frequently these days. I’d like to take a moment to clarify these zumors and set the record straight
One day before the start of #MARCHintosh and the polpo zone and its ImageWriter II are back on #GlobalTalk! About 5 minutes after getting online I got a letter from John Sculley himself. I’m honored
A piece of 1-bit pixel art on a simulated Macintosh screen. the piece of 512x342 pixels in size, and depicts a wacked-out bit of art showin the giant number "2026" floating in space over a piece of "Globaltalk" text with an Apple logo next to it. Various spacy shit is around the piece, like a nebula behind, a planet with rings, a small black hole, a whole bunch of stylised magnetar lines, clouds, rocks, and black bubbles of possibly vacuum decay. it's signed in the bottom right corner by me, 'nanoraptor'
For Globaltalk, in Marchintosh 2026.
18.5 hours, 1 bit, black and white only.
(Original .pict on a bunch of your globaltalk servers)
#MARCHintosh RC2 for our Ultra devices and updates for BlueSCSI v2's as well!
* Speed improvements from @jcs.org
* Special Amiga WiFi device by @robsmithdev.bsky.social
* Fixed SD Updates
* And more!
github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...
New @hackerboxes.bsky.social video: ESP32 camera + ECG monitor build. Spent way too long troubleshooting esp32 wifi junk! The ECG build was super neat.
Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring this one!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A11Z...
#BlueSCSI v2026.02.08 - HUGE release
* 16-bit Ultra Wide SCSI
* CD audio S/PDIF/I2S
* Fragmented images are fast now!
* SCA drive bay
* 11.5x BlueSCSI Toolbox speed boost
* SCSI bus timing fixes
* 520-byte sector imaging
* No Arduino deps
* 2287 unit test assertions
& more github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...
New video is up.
HackerBox 0121 from @hackerboxes.bsky.social is a microcontroller lab kit that really leans into learning by doing. No pressure to be an expert, just room to experiment and build confidence.
Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring.
youtu.be/XEJ-Hc8Tk5k
Made a guest appearance on the latest RetroCombs video! We had some fun playing with LoRa.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN4E...
Snowy Saturday = @hackerboxes.bsky.social catch up!
In concert with the PicoIDE campaign launching at Crowd Supply, I have released the PicoIDE documentation so you can preview how you can use the device in detail: PicoIDE docs are live: picoide.com/docs/
Woot! Back this awesome project!
@polpo.org joins us this week to talk optical media fragility, "cursed IDE controllers," & more, as ATAPI CD-ROM / IDE fixed hard drive replacement PicoIDE is ready for production.
The campaign launches today, see picoide.com for details, and watch this Saturday on This Week in Retro episode 253!
Oof. Thanks Amazon!
Oh my that's a really nice setup!