kmagnacca, 10 months ago

@futurebird Reminds me of this

DemocracySpot, 10 months ago

@kmagnacca

1987af!

@futurebird

christiansen, 10 months ago

@futurebird
It's not exactly the same case, but I have an old power supply in a cool case. I really like the dials

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futurebird, 10 months ago

@christiansen

These are the kind of devices I cherish and protect. Lovely unit.

xorn, 10 months ago

@futurebird @christiansen is there a term for this style? It's like the precursor to Cassette Futureism.

I mean, I like both, but they're quite different

graveolensa, 10 months ago

@futurebird
don't build something specific: build something that can be lots of things
8tb of storage, an embedded web server (over bluetooth), environmental sensors, magnetic field sensors and accelerometers, a local copy of wikipedia,... the larger and more expansive the range of function it has the more perplexing and bewildering it becomes... (see /The Twonky/ and or the Interocitor in /This Island Earth/)

golgaloth, 10 months ago

@graveolensa @futurebird So, basically you need to invent the first working tricorder.

radio, 10 months ago

@futurebird You will find completely unused ones, or some that have a few holes drilled in the wrong place in university surplus. Too bad some of them use eBay now.

volbard, 10 months ago

@futurebird I saw this at an antique place and had to restrain myself. Big beautiful and also kind of sinister red and green lights

tikaro, 10 months ago

@futurebird deeply relatable. I put an AM transmitter in this box for an outdoor-movie scavenger hunt, and it all started as an excuse to buy the Pelican case in the first place.

If your box is mysterious and doesn’t clearly do any one thing… you could invent a new function every day? (“It’s a gorilla detector!” :push secret buzzer delay button: “OH NO IT’S GOING OFF!”)

tomnardi, 10 months ago

@futurebird Look like some perfect cyberdeck enclosures to me...

kentborg, 10 months ago

@futurebird Dangerous stuff, go away.

sabik, 10 months ago

@futurebird
Get half a dozen and make a TARDIS console?

inari, 10 months ago

@futurebird custom retro PCs are all the rage (and I might also be biased) but a retro calc sounds awesome too!

ShadSterling, 10 months ago

@futurebird karaoke machine, but all the songs are from Square One?

Virginicus, 10 months ago

@futurebird They way things have been going, a combination air-quality sensor / Geiger counter may come in handy.

douglasvb, 10 months ago

@futurebird 😅 now I have an irrational need to stock up on metal louvered enclosures.

dschwarz, 10 months ago

@futurebird Portable PDP-8 replica? https://www.tindie.com/products/obso/pdp-8-replica-kit-the-pidp-8/

johnnyd_cm, 10 months ago

@futurebird The usual suspects, Lab PSU, oscilloscope, signal generator, hex keyboard, pulse generator to name a few.

johnb48, 10 months ago

@futurebird

Nope. It's not madness. All us hams have stashes of boxen, parts, and assorted other stuff that we know is not 🚫🚫🚫 junk.

Your ham sense is just kicking in.

Go for it!!!

hudsonart, 10 months ago

@futurebird The blue one would make a great lunch box.

cm_jc, 10 months ago

@futurebird super simple, just put a led 7seg display with a countdown timer running it. If you make it battery operated you can carry it around with you.

nomi, 10 months ago

@futurebird
Something like this could be wacky fun
https://griffin.moe/voder/

eltonfc, 10 months ago

@futurebird first one reminds me og Altair

futurebird, 10 months ago

@eltonfc

Having a ultra old-school computer could be a useful teaching tool for my binary math themed CS class...

EverydayMoggie, 10 months ago

Something that will let students choose various combinations of logic gates by flipping switches, add inputs, and try to predict the output?

@futurebird @eltonfc

eltonfc, 10 months ago

@futurebird like this https://hackaday.com/2014/12/01/a-z80-computer-with-switches-and-blinkenlights/ ?

fredy, 10 months ago

@futurebird CD / cassette / mp3/flac player!

xorn, 10 months ago

@futurebird 22mm panel mount hardware makes for some nice clicky push buttons

azar, 10 months ago

@futurebird Portable terminal/terminal emulator for use with various hosts because...uh...I've run out of runway on this idea.

Cyrus, 10 months ago

@futurebird a power supply is always a practical first choice! That way you have power for whatever you do second.

https://www.instructables.com/Build-a-Variable-Lab-Bench-Power-Supply/

golgaloth, 10 months ago

@futurebird Spit-balling here. Just hear me out. Maybe some sort of ant farm?

admin, 10 months ago

@golgaloth @futurebird

Portable Hex from Discworld?