Redesigning a Karaoke Machine
So there I am in the thrift store, cash burning a hole in my pocket, looking for an excuse to break out my soldering iron. On the shelf is a CD+G karaoke machine with a cute little 5″ CRT. Now I don’t sing (yet), but a device like this speaks directly to me. I even […]
Absurdly Intense Stealth Bluetooth
There are a lot of great ways to get Bluetooth in your car these days; aftermarket head units, FM transmitters, battery-powered Bluetooth cassettes, dongles that go into the aux port, and even amplifiers with built-in Bluetooth are everywhere. New head units cost less than a pack of toilet paper. But what if you’re going for […]
Connecting a WebTV in 2022
Want to just connect? — Skip straight to the hardware setup and script sections. WebTV was a service launched in 1996 that brought this amazing new internet craze right into your living room, and it was a pretty compelling device for its time. You could view newsgroups, join IRC chatrooms, send emails, browse the web, […]
Seikosha LT-20 Printer
I’m the type of person who gets excited about rare old tech, so you can imagine my delight when I found a $15 travel bag at the thrift store claiming to contain a laptop printer. Inside was a Seikosha LT-20, a dot matrix model I had never heard of before–and if search is anything to […]