👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻

#PicoIDE production update: after a delay due to supply constraints, boards are currently in production! All enclosures have been manufactured. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

TIL super glue can set shit on fire. I was cleaning up a little over spill and touched my finger to the paper towel and got legit burned. Then I look down and see the paper fucking SMOKING. I feel like this is something I shoulda known years ago.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Nixie socks! @techconnectify.bsky.social

New video: HackerBox 0131 "Amberjack" 🐟 Soldered 81 LEDs into a chaser grid, cooked a chip by installing it backwards, and got saved by an old RadioShack kit. Plus Tetris and an LED painter on the Cheap Yellow Display. Thanks @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social! Giveaway in ytcomments youtu.be/sJyB6Vovhm8

New video: @hackerboxes.bsky.social 0130 "Shortwave" Modded the receiver, built a mag loop out of old Romex, and hung it off the kitchen ceiling fan. Plus an ESP32-C3 bit-banging AM. Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring, and there's a giveaway in the comments! 🎁 youtu.be/G_TrHkL38iw

🖨️ Oregon Trail began with a school teletype in MN. Did you know Prince attended Bryant Junior High, where early versions were first created for the students.

Aaaaand I’m spent. I blacked out for most of the talk but people told me it was good. I’ve wanted to do this for other talks so I finally got around to it. Slides, notes, & miscellaneous links available here for anyone curious. github.com/DAkacki/GrrC...

Come see the BlueSCSI booth and a lot of other cool stuff in Kate & Veronica's video/podcast!

the space tablet, print ad, imagery (1982) archive.org/details/byte...

Build a Frankenstein inspired servo candy dispenser with LED animated eyes and sound effects learn.adafruit.com/franky-candy-dispenser #3dprinting #adafruit

Coming soooon! We just finished routing the ESP32-P4 Metro, and it's the HOTTEST new club in brooklyn. it's got everything: USB-C peripheral, DC power, LiPoly charging and monitoring, bucks and boosts a'plenty for all the power rails

If anyone wants to go yolo (or was prepping) and passes the on site technician test here at 10a at #vcfmw. Come find me with your proof and I'll give you a 5r mini. Nothing fancy but not a terrible first ht. #hamradio. I've got two available. First come first serve.

youtube.com/live/32a1McH... Live Show Sep 13 2026 8:00amPST 11:00amEST join me and my friends with more retro shenanigans Can we cut down the screen protector glass to fit on the Frankin Mac

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Doors are open come by and say hi #vcfmw

Might not look like much, but these are the best quality (so far) color prints using 3D printed replacement rollers for the biodegraded original Panasonic rollers.

Diving into the latest @hackerboxes.bsky.social. 1 year ago today I got so sick of doom scrolling I started from scratch, digging into a 10 year HB backlog which led to creating my own badge for @defcon.bsky.social 34. I like this rabbit hole. Imma stay awhile. My workspace has also…expanded.

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

This is who runs this account

We’ll that was $40 in PVC fittings wasted…….

New video: HackerBox 0129 "Orbital," five round displays, an ESP32-S3, and a build of Brett Tech's open-source Info Orbs. Giveaway in the comments. Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring. youtu.be/T1BLPmZ5UcA

Normal people don't like navigating github - so in our effort to ensure everyone can find what they need easily we've created a Downloads page for the latest firmware and BlueSCSI Toolbox - check it out bluescsi.com/downloads

Let’s start the week with an early release talk from DEF CON 34 - this time it’s ‘ESP32 as a counter-surveillance platform’. The humble, reasonably-priced microcontroller and an emerging group of applications, are helping democratize counter-surveillance. youtu.be/PcK-TDmzshc #defcon #defcon34

Before semiconductor RAM, most computers used magnetic core memory. This is the 32 KB core stack from the computer on Spacelab, the Space Shuttle's experimental laboratory. Let's take a closer look...

This is exactly the stuff that keeps me going. Gonna be charged off just this comment for a nice long while. ❤️❤️

thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton

I was lucky enough to see this amazing talk on hacker history front row center @hackglasgow.bsky.social. This needs a part II. youtu.be/Sg2WzVrWUvg

Rootie has been dropped off as of this morning. Once again. Prepare thyselves because everyone’s getting slugged at VCFMW.

Welcome #BeOS to the #BlueSCSI Toolbox! BlueSCSI tool for BeOS R5 - github.com/jeremysrand/...

I wore this little badge around DEF CON and kept getting "whoa, what IS that?" So I made a video. It's a tiny computer you wear around your neck. You can even play around with the code in your browser via try.badgewa.re www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV44...

When you’re witnessing some truly unhinged Whose Slide behavior @hackglasgow.bsky.social and it gives you faith the gag isn’t old yet.

New video! Built HackerBox 0128 "Mesh Deck," a DIY handheld for texting over radio, no cell or internet needed. Ugly soldering and a stubborn bootloader along the way, but it works. Giving one away to a commenter. Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring! youtu.be/4QVLYrkGY4E

Showing some Green to Gold Ivy Tech students all about @meshtastic.org a few weeks ago at the Propeller makerspace.

BlueSCSI's been around for almost 6 years now - and we've had a lot of first and milestones in that time. If you're new to the project or just haven't been keeping up checkout bluescsi.com/milestones What's your favorite? Any you didn't know about?

we need more whimsy 👀

If you didn't get an Alf and want an Alf lemme know. #defcon

Go find @akacki.net and tell em how great a job he did on his badge!

Finally got around to playing more with the @pimoroni.com tufty 2350. Pretty neat little badge/platform powered by a @raspberrypi.com 2350. #defcon

It's about that time again! #defcon

While we're not at #vcfwest this weekend we have Richard at his "Retro Media Recover" Exhibit 3 table showing off some of the latest #BlueSCSI devices and backing up your data - go say hi!

13 years of my old PC parts rolling downhill to the kid. Sempron, Athlon, Phenom, an FX-4350 and Intel gpu that bit me in the hind end. Finally ended it with a $55 Xeon off AliExpress that probably led a previous life in a data center. youtu.be/-PZRBXaMUg4

The mid-90s did not treat Apple well, and the company released some pretty, well, mid products. But was a seemingly mediocre model actually all that bad? Let’s find out! youtu.be/hC0z7rMZ33E

Two topics for Saturday's noon EDT stream: 1. compare the performance of PCCHIPS M912 and Asus VL/I-486SV2G 486 motherboards with 1MB of cache 2. try to fix my Orchid Kelvin MPEG (Cirrus Logic 5434) VLB video card youtube.com/live/GnpQYva...

This is a #3Dprinted truck riser with integrated NeoPixel #LEDs. These headlights are bluetooth controlled via iOS/Android Bluefruit app! Guide: learn.adafruit.com/3d-printed-t... youtu.be/1QY6nZaLJlc #3dprinting #adafruit

New video is up. Cracked open HackerBox 0127 "Sea Five," from @hackerboxes.bsky.social, built around the ESP32-C5, the first ESP32 that does 5GHz. Made for a fun little rig to take for a bit of a (war)walk. Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring. youtu.be/xuJgNKNxdoU

Our v2/Ultra #BlueSCSI wiki has been edited 1000x by 100+ people! We do our best to keep docs updated, but it takes a village. Thanks to everyone who contributed and to everyone who will! Our community is great - come join in on the fun