Gigatron Hackers

In my brain there is a connection between "ZIF socket" and "green". So although my eyes are working fine, I incorrectly called it green. It is aqua.

I had ordered some stuff for lb's expansion board. Instead of paying €20 for shipping, I decided to order some nice ZIF sockets to replace the big green ones, e.g. on Ye Olde Gigatron, so the shipping was free (or the ZIF sockets were free, depending how you look at it). First, getting the old one o...

Nice work. It's a lot of time these kind of things take, especially if you really think them through well, as you did.

Same here. I love the name

Thanks Leon!

Wow, lots of soldering! But I also enjoy soldering. My latest project was this one: https://www.tindie.com/products/kilpela ... r-arduino/

Soldering *and* weaving cores, fun!

And thanks so much for your offer to send PCBs to add to my 'shrine'! I'll send a DM.

Hi Hans,

You made three of them right away? (Black, blue, orange)

Your wooden box is nice, nicely build.

Darn, now I want a blue and orange PCB for my collection of Gigatron stuff

Nice to see this. Although I think putting SMD there is a bit cheating with the whole retro concept, I like how you've hidden that from view
Btw that's a nice DIP40 socket you have in there.

Awesome work!

Yesterday, there was a talk about the Gigatron at the CCC conference, which is this year remote, so named rC3. At https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-703359-basteln_im_lockdown you will find the video. It's in German. They focus on the hardware and spend some time on how the logic gates work. The only softwa...