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We needed a new coffee table for our loungeroom and I wanted to finally start using some of my ridiculous collection of hardwood that has been sitting in the shed for years.

I've used 60% wireless mechanical keyboards for a fair few years now, both as a portable keyboard when traveling, for PS5 games that support keyboards, and for Raspberry Pi projects... and I've also built various custom mechanical keyboards such as Dactyl…

Childhood-me always wanted a set of traffic lights in my room, but it wasn't until adult-me saw a stall selling them at a local swap-meet that I realised there's nothing actually stopping that from happening.

This post will evolve into more of a tutorial/guide later.

This is one of a series of blog posts about retro technology that I have collected over the years, under the Museum tag.

Today the Australian Signals Directorate announced their 75th Anniversary Commemorative Coin, which is a standard Australian 50 cent coin with various cryptographic puzzles embedded in it.

The Ikea Vindriktning air quality sensors are a very cheap and well built sensor for checking the air quality of your room at a glance, but they don't come with Wi-Fi or a way to remotely monitor data.

I was pretty sick of worrying about the AA batteries for my original Gameboy, and just wanted a LiPo pack I could recharge via micro USB like so many of my modern devices.

My mechanical keyboard doesn't have media keys for volume/mute and while it's possible to map key combos to do the job, I've always preferred the tactile feedback of physical volume knobs.

Since the coronapocalypse kicked in and we've all been isolated, I've been doing a lot of Jitsi meets with various groups of friends.

CSIRAC is the only intact first-generation computer surviving anywhere in the world.

It's a pretty well known fact* that the World Wide Web (and arguably humanity itself) peaked in 1999, and it has been downhill ever since.