Saw these neat photographic recreations of Byte magazine cover paintings on a recent episode of EEVBlog.

Another great IC photo and write up from Ken Shirriff which explains how Intel's 8087 used different gate widths in its ROM to encode two-bits of information per address.

Adrian S. Nastase's weblog has some nice, short introductory articles.

Sam started the process of making semiconductors in his garage 1.5 years ago.

A look at the LTC3265 charge pump LDO

"How the neon-filled glow lamps came to hold a special place in enthusiasts’ hearts"

I like these little 1- and 3-key USB keyboards.

"Earl William 'Madman' Muntz (January 3, 1914 – June 21, 1987) was an American businessman and engineer... He invented the practice that came to be known as Muntzing, which involved simplifying otherwise complicated electronic devices. Muntz produced and marketed the first black-and-white television receivers to sell for less than $100"

Hat tip to a recent EEVblog video for bringing up Muntz and the practice of Muntzing.

Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo built this fast Rubik's cube solving machine (six servomotors and two cameras solve a cube in 0.38 seconds).

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.