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Turning LEDs into a camera
[Udo] figured out how to turn a bunch of LEDs into a very low resolution camera. The build is based around [Udo]’s Blinkenlight shield he’s been developing over the past year. The camera operates...
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Use Ruby to Make Any Window A Blinken Window
[Akhil Stanislavose] wanted to spice up his window decorations for the holidays. Inspired by blinkenlights, he decided to make his front window interactive. The Blinken Window is a grid of 6 x 10...
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Getting Started with Blinking Lights on Old Iron
If you ever go to a computer history museum, you’ll be struck by how bland most modern computers look. Prior to 1980 computers had lights and switches, and sometimes dials and meters. Some had...
View ArticleThis Blinken Grid Is All Analog
The personal computers of today are economical with their employ of the humble LED. A modern laptop might have a power LED, and a hard drive indicator if you’re lucky. It was the mainframes of the ’60s...
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Programmable Ruler Keeps 1970’s Computing Alive
A ruler seems like a pretty simple device; just a nice straight piece of material with some marks on it. There are some improvements out there to the basic design, like making it out of something...
View ArticleTeardown The Things You Love
This two-decade old blinkenlights project (YouTube link, and also below the break) would look at home among current $1 soldering kits except for a few key differences. Firstly, it has the teardown...
View ArticleAltair Front Panel Tutorials
If you aren’t old enough to remember when computers had front panels, as [Patrick Jackson] found out after he built a replica Altair 8800, their operation can be a bit inscrutable. After figuring it...
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