There was once a time, before home computers, before the Internet, before mobile phones, PDAs, wireless networking, and video games, when hardware hacking was what every aspiring engineer did with their free time. What better way to spend an evening or weekend than trying to build a robot with pieces lying around in your junk bins? This article presents some ideas related to creating your own robot out of vintage computer parts.

Paper: Getting Back to Our (Hardware Hacking) Roots: Building Robots with Vintage Computer Parts

Published by Computer Collector Newsletter, 4(23), June 13, 2005.