What is Bonus Life?
What Is Bonus Life? Ten years ago this summer, I had a heart attack. Cardiac event, technically.. that’s what the doctors call it, and what it means is tha…
Pablo Artigas – Artist interview – 11/19/23
Thirty minutes, no script, no edits — a raw conversation with Pablo Artigas, the producer and DJ behind the trance album The Story of Mu, Parts 1 and 2. Re…
My trance story: What trance means to me, or why EDM is awesome
In 2001, Rob moved from rural Michigan to Los Angeles at 21. Unfamiliar city, unfamiliar people, third-shift work at a youth hostel near LAX. The music tha…
When a NORMAL Christmas Tree just isn’t enough.. you make your OWN BlackLight ornaments!
Over 100 handmade UV reactive ornaments for a blacklight Christmas tree — six weeks of work, a Cricut machine, UV paints, UV reactive vinyl, and UV resin….
Fixing Vanguard – an arcade machine from 1981 that TALKS
Vanguard is one of SNK’s earliest arcade games — originally released in 1981 by Centuri in North America. This cabinet came in needing a new monitor, a ful…
I found Flood Damaged NES Games! Can these Nintendo games be saved?
Water-damaged NES cartridges pulled from a flooded basement — mold on the boards, labels gone, pins corroded. The question isn’t whether they look salvagea…
How MacGyver and The Fonz Literally Saved My Life – A True Story from 1991
Summer 1991. I was 11 years old, on a 500-pound riding mower from 1967. The mower went over a slope, flipped, and I was pinned underneath it — hands burnin…
Can we FIX and preserve this RARE and BANNED N64 accessory?
The Z64 “Mr. Backup” is one of the rarest Nintendo 64 accessories still in the wild — a backup unit that was discontinued and pulled from the market under…
N64 Upgrade! I put an LCD screen INSIDE a Nintendo 64 to make an animated logo jewel! So can you!!
The UltraJewel64 mod replaces the stock plastic logo jewel on a Nintendo 64 with a Waveshare ESP32-S3 round LCD screen running custom animated graphics. Th…