It looks like a step. But ceci n’est pas une step.
Very mild custom light sixer
I only gave this six switch 2600 a good cleaning and added a power light. A resistor inline with the LED keeps the LED from pulling all of the current necessary to run the console. A composite video output may be in this unit’s future.
Or alternately you could have put the marking… oh never mind.
Supplemental Instructions by Dymo
Self-adhesive documentation was necessary here because in card readers, the card’s magnetic stripe almost never faces down. Why stray from a perfectly good design convention?
Country and Western Digital
I wasn’t happy with my Western Digital USB drive’s creaky plastic case, so I hastily hacked together some scrap wood decided to take it in a different direction.
Tractor tachometers are extremely weird
I have the feeling that we’ve overloaded the display here.
Of course it is. It reads “This page is not available in this edition of Windows”.
Atari HTPC
It’s a Light Sixer Sears Tele-Games with a thin Mini-ITX motherboard and a 120gb SSD. It’s a Celeron 847 (not exactly a hoss), but it doesn’t do too poorly with “vanilla” Minecraft on Windows 10.
Since these pics I’ve cut out more of the bottom of the unit and routed the cables more tightly for cooling. I also added a blue power LED that needs a resistor, as it’s blindingly bright at night.
WIP: Stormtrooper Atari 2600
As a riff on the all-black “Vader” 2600s, I made a white/black “Stormtrooper” case.
The text is die-cut using Erikstormtrooper’s “Sith Prophecy” font. It does read “Video Computer System” above the slot and “Atari 2600” on the front panel.
I know what you’re going to say – text on an a Stormtrooper’s Atari console would be in Aurebesh – and that learning the ancient language of the Sith would probably mean certain death for a Stormtrooper. Let’s just say a whole bunch of the clumsy lugs chipped in and had a unit built especially for Lord Vader. Consider it the lost segment of the Star Wars Holiday Special.