Ian Scott

The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

#PicoIDE production update: after a delay due to supply constraints, boards are currently in production! All enclosures have been manufactured. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

The talk I gave at #teardown2026, Creating Up to Date Hardware for Out of Date Tech is now up on the Crowd Supply YouTube channel! Join me as I talk about what makes old tech cool, and why open source hardware makes it even cooler. youtu.be/S2pVAZUPD6o

The amazing @polpo.org came across a Packard Bell Legend 610 with a nasty power supply and thought of me. I thought that was a compliment, but on second thought, I'm not so sure! In any case, let's open it up and see if we can get signs of life. Friday afternoon 2:30 EDT. youtube.com/live/yqqyvRE...

If you recognize the Apple II peripheral in this photo...you're one of the few!🕹️ And if you actually HAVE one, or know someone who does... Please contact me!! 💾 It's a 1980 VersaWriter, the graphic tablet I used to create the rotoscoped Karateka animations. 🙏 Sadly, I got rid of mine long ago.

Macintosh b&w art, random pick from my collection day 16

Turns out you can get laser cut sheet metal ~10x cheaper by pretending it's a solder paste stencil and ordering from @jlcpcb.bsky.social. Suck it, SendCutSend!

The #FujiNet WiFi Adapter Cartridge is coming to the #NES Bring-up threads: AtariAge: forums.atariage.com/topic/393355... NESDEV: forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.ph... Intro video:

Saw a guy wearing ESD safe birkenstocks at work today. I aspire to that level of drip

reposting because the #my9games thing is going around again. I stand by my choices wholeheartedly

"The PicoIDE will never work on the B&W G3" - Ian Scott, September 25, 2026 "The PicoIDE works fine on the B&W G3 with an OpenFirmware workaround" - Ian Scott, September 26, 2026

I’m in this video in a couple spots! Clint caught me dropping off some Macs and a tape drive enclosure on the free pile, and later he stops by my table where my 486 with PicoIDE and PicoGUS is playing the intro to Return to Zork VERY LOUDLY

I wish appliances with sensors would tell you what they were doing in more detail. Like "I'm extending the wash cycle by N minutes because I detect X turbidity level in the water" or "load unbalanced, restarting spin cycle, attempt N of 5".

Post-VCF letdown: getting the retro space under control. I let things get too messy during VCF prep and brought back a lot from the show so now I need to figure out where things can go so I can see my floor again!

Kate and Veronica’s new podcast is great! I may be biased because they interviewed me at VCF Midwest last weekend but they’re awesome people putting together something awesome!

the space tablet, print ad, imagery (1982) archive.org/details/byte...

I'll be on this stream tonight!

An amazing thing some of you may not have seen this past weekend at #vcfmw: bytex64’s MFM drive emulator. He got it up and running on Sunday and the speaker on it for drive activity sounds great!

Another VCF Midwest #vcfmw highlight: taking a van load of stuff to put on the free pile on behalf of @jeremysretrobar.bsky.social. Almost everything I put on the pile was picked up within seconds of me putting it down. There’s two more layers of stuff beyond what you can see in this photo

VCF Midwest had its first christening, went off with a bang

Ok I'm officially putting out the call for help, Wonderbread (my prius) is acting up and I think it's unsafe to drive it to Chicago. Looking for folks driving through Pittsburgh to #VCFMW. I will need a little bit of cargo space.

Coming to VCF Midwest? If you're like me, it's hard trying to remember where everything is, especially with VCF taking up the ENTIRE expo hall this year. So I made this tool last night: geerlingguy.github.io/vcfmw21-map/ Now it's a lot easier to find exhibitors! #vcfmw

Read the story of how the NEC V20's microcode was decoded. martypc.blogspot.com/2026/09/deco... #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #reverseengineering #x86

Hey folks! #VCFMW #VCFMW2026 is in a week and a half! I'll be at table B206 showing off PicoIDE and PicoGUS on various systems and just hanging out. See ya there! And boy that is a lot of tables!

I just learned that the pinball place near-ish me (www.lyonsclassicpinball.com) has a weekly pinball machine repair class every Monday night. I won't be able to go for a few weeks but that sounds super fun

Got the PicoIDE and BlueSCSI installed into the SGI VW 320 to demo at VCF Midwest in a couple weeks! I love the auto opening door on this thing.

Just sayin’, you should probably visit my table at VCF Midwest if you faved this post

New update on PicoIDE production at Crowd Supply: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

VCF Midwest is a bit over 2 weeks away so I’m getting PicoIDE demo rigs set up for my table. One will be an SGI Visual Workstation 320 with both a BlueSCSI Ultra Wide and a PicoIDE in way-too-cool black front panel enclosures. These are 3d printed because I’ve only gotten molded samples in beige

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs lectronz.com/u/lectronz/a...

“Why do you want to run a 36-bit PDP-10 in 2026?!” #blinkenlights #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vintage icm.museum

Hey friends, I’m in need of a new job. No, YouTube doesn’t pay the bills. 😓 If you know anyone who is looking for an experienced product/app Content Designer or UX Writer, please let me know! 🤞 Feel free to DM me or email me any leads. Thanks!

The Crimson Diamond BIG BOX is being planned! 🤩 If you were going to buy one, would you prefer: a) CD-ROM with printed surface b) usb stick made of maple wood with a laser-engraved logo?

Commission work: I need 16x16 to 16x24 pixel art weather icons made. 1bpp, 4bpp, 8bpp depths. Reach out to me in DMs for details

Tower by Adam Basanta (2026) www.adambasanta.com/tower.php

Getting together a PicoIDE demo setup for VCF Midwest and for fun I think I'll use my SGI Visual Workstation 320. Quake, Quake II, and Half-Life run great! Anyone know any other fun OpenGL games from the late 90s? The SGI graphics on this machine can't do Direct3D, which is a fun limitation.

The mad lad has gone and done it: Hakko nail clippers. cc @tubetime.bsky.social

Well, this has been a journey. I've been trying to crack reliable tape loading since lockdown and by jove, I've actually done it! 🥳 I have four built, one's mine and the rest are going out to some people who are a force for good in the retro community. They deserve a nice toy to 'test'. ☺️

in honor of the IBM PC's 45th anniversary today, here is the original prototype motherboard! which side is your favorite?

Had a good ol’ time at the Boulder County Fair today

Very tempted to Frankenstein together my very own set of Hakko nail clippers with this part

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really interesting analysis of the raspberry pi PIO coprocessor from a hw designer perspective; bunnie reimplements it in FPGA to learn, decides hes curious about a more RISC approcah to the same problem space, and... implements that. awesome work & writeup. www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/bi...