We’re bringing the MOnSter 6502 and the Digi-Comp II to the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest February 10-11 at the Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington.
Living Computers: Museum+Labs is an incredible museum! Bring your camera, bring your children, and enjoy all that LC:ML and VCF have to offer.
Check out the exhibitor list and the speaker lineup for more information.
We are heading back to one of our favorite events, the East Bay Mini Maker Faire on Sunday, October 22. We’ll be demonstrating AxiDraw. We hope to see you there!
Maker Faire New York was wonderful, the MOnSter 6502 got an editor’s choice ribbon, and we took a few pictures that give a taste of the faire.
In perhaps the most perfect Maker Faire spirit, the Fixers Collective brought broken things for people to fix. Broken 3D printer, anyone?
Sam Zeloof brought examples of his homemade integrated circuits along with documentation of his processes. He even made a small demo vacuum chamber to bring to the faire since the one he made and uses at home was heavier than he wanted to lug to the faire.
This great display project by Taezoo Park in front of the great hall utilized vintage portable televisions.
There are more photos up in our flickr album and there were many more wonderful things we didn’t get pictures of.
We’re excited to be bringing the MOnSter 6502 out to Maker Faire New York for its east coast debut. Maker Faire is September 23 and 24 at the New York Hall of Science.
See how microcontrollers and computers work at the most basic level! We built a functional transistor-scale model of the famous 6502 microprocessor. In this larger than life model, you can visualize internal states and the flow of data.
So dust off your BASIC skills, or visit the Vintage Computer Federation’s BASIC classroom at Maker Faire and then come try it out on the MOnSter 6502.
We’ll be at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, May 19-21 with Tube Time and the MOnSter 6502 project. We’ll hope to see you there!
We are excited to be demonstrating the AxiDraw at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire on October 23 at the Park Day School in Oakland.
If you can join us, you can use discount code “MakerRockstar” when purchasing tickets online for 15% off.
We will be demonstrating the AxiDraw at Maker Faire New York this weekend, October 1-2. We’ll be in the Microchip booth in the Maker Pavilion.
Windell will be giving a talk on Sunday at this year’s Maker Faire in New York.
You can catch the talk on Sunday, October 2, at 2:30 PM, on the Make: Show & Tell Stage.
The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory is available from Amazon.com, O’Reilly, and other sellers of books, as well as from our store.
The Vintage Computer Festival is happening at the Computer History Museum in Mountain view this weekend, August 6-7.
Hands-on exhibits are presented Saturday and Sunday. You’ll find demos of 1960s minicomputers, 1970s homebrew systems, 1980s eight-bitters, and a few oddities. Some exhibits contain pristine original machines, while others focus on unique modern hacks, and everything in between.
The MOnSter 6502 will be there, too!
We are once again excited to be helping judge the Hackaday Prize.
Now in its third year, the Hackaday Prize challenges the international community of designers and makers to address issues facing humanity through technology.
This year the prize is divided into five separate 5-week design challenges. The first one, Design Your Concept is ending on April 25th. It will be followed by Anything Goes, Citizen Scientist, Automation, and finally Assistive technologies, which ends on October 3rd.
20 projects will be chosen from each of the 5 rounds, and awarded $1000 per project. At the end of all 5 rounds, 100 projects in total will advance to the finals where 5 top prizes will be awarded: $150k, $25k, $10k, $10k and $5k. In addition the 1st place project will win a residency in the Supplyframe Design lab to develop their project further.
You can see the entries so far on hackaday.io. You can also head to a hackaday meetup in your community. We’ll be at the San Jose meetup on April 23rd, and hope to see you there!
