Technology companies do not stop to amaze us with new products in the IT sector. And not always, these new items carry a some kind of the benefits, or an Interesting solution. In any case, all these things are some short term toys and live to the next exit of "another killer of iPhone"... There is no magic in them. That magic, which is a subject of Nostalgia for generation of 30-40 years old people, trying to find some calm in listening to vinyl records and tapes, 8-bit games and retro video clips.

But it is possible to go much further in this nostalgia, and try to recreate that magic manually.

Recently I found through the Internet some interesting DIY projects based on assembling personal computers, including such stages as Soldering, programming in a language such as BASIC (pull out your old textbooks). There are models for building computers such as ZX and other various boards, but most interesting for me is project called Maximite (possibly due to the fact that there is a special case for it and I love finished projects).

Judging by the descriptions of bloggers, if you buy such constructor and know how to use a soldering-iron, you can build yourself a microcomputer within 2 hours! And fans are already being righting software for it(can be downloaded at the developer's site). I even saw the screenshots of "Space Invaders"!

As a result, your computer will be ready to connect peripheral devices based on the SD/FAT, USB, VGA, PS/2 (note that only the PS/2 keyboard connects to this port, a USB keyboard doesn’t suite), timers, RS232, I2C, SPI, PWM, ADC/DAC.

I'll still sit a little bit with the "virtual" soldering device called PD, but if in future it will be kit, which will be accompanied by a soldering-iron, rosin (and skillful hands))), I will definitely buy such a gadget!

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