Linus Åkesson (lft) converted an old electronic organ into a MIDI controller and 8-bit synthesizer using two 8-bit ATmega88 microcontrollers. The synthesizer sounds very NES-ish with its bright square+triangle+noise oscillators. lft is musician and has several videos of himself on youtube playing very nice renditions of various chiptunes (from memory) on his Chipophone.

All about neon tube ring counters, and other non-standard ways to drive nixie tube clocks.

Jeroen Domburg's linux framebuffer driver which allows using a SSD1289-based TFT LCD, connected via SPI, as a monitor.

While I wasn't paying attention, Glen K. finished documenting his analog pong game, complete with nice hand-drawn schematics.

(Original EEVBlog thread: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/oscilloscope-pong-for-1-or-2-players/)

He's now working on an asteroids game: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/asteroids-we-don't-need-not-stinkin'-micro-processor!/

I really like this aesthetic. Now I want to build a little console system based on a display like this.

Guide to common connectors (otherwise an overwhelming array of options) with suggestions for less expensive crimping tools.

Russel Smith converts a typewriter into a keyboard with a single SoftPot touch sensor.

This is a classic. Dmitry wrote an ARM emulator for the 8-bit AVR ATmega microcontroller, and successfully built what is probably still the slowest, cheapest, single board Linux computer.

He's also written an ARM Thumb emulator for the ATTiny85:
http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=08.%20uM0

"The stories of the greatest and most influential microchips in history—and the people who built them"

Hacker News discussion about why hearing aids are so expensive.

An Interview with IC designer Jørgen Jakobsen, formerly of Ericsson. Talks a bit about the hearing aid industry; lots of links in the description.

I just discovered Don Lancaster's website (of TTL Cookbook fame). This could keep me busy for a while.

He even keeps an active weblog: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu17.shtml

Another good die-exploring post from Ken Shirriff. This time he identifies a counterfeit/mis-labeled chip by examining its die photos.

Ken Shirriff takes a look at the die of the old 76477 Complex Sound Generation chip, including some high-level reverse engineering.