This past week has been one of reminiscing, talking about, and finding lost treasures from and about my late friend Jill Sobule. I turned off the monetization so that I could put this one together....
2025-05-12 19:04:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Easy Good - Bloat Bad!!
2025-05-12 14:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Whatever happens, it will happen soon. Stay tuned...
2025-05-12 01:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post
What is this thing?
2025-05-10 16:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to fill the case and get everything in place.
2025-05-08 10:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
If you think I don't know what I'm talking about, you do know that I started and ran an all American manufacturing company right? Enjoy!
2025-05-05 15:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
What is it that I do again? Maybe someone can remind me what my REAL job is... I really don;t remember. Enjoy!
2025-05-05 15:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post
All Jill Songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-nqU4ZztWRc3akeLUeERQ America Back - 2025-05-05 04:23:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Part Two of my BINA VIEW Control project has me creating the front panel artwork using a technique I have never tried before. Let's see how it turns out! Enjoy....
2025-05-01 22:26:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Bots Bots Everywhere! Oh, those lovable little scamps... what clever things will they think of next? Enjoy!
2025-04-28 18:18:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Major Fran to Ground Control....
2025-04-26 19:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go - another project! I am using a vintage NOS Archer case for the BINA VIEW Controller project, and so we go to the Phactory to get it ready. Enjoy!
2025-04-25 21:28:56 +0000 UTC View Post
For April 20, 2025... Enjoy!
2025-04-23 20:47:18 +0000 UTC View Post
There can be only One - power indicator in my BINA VIEW Controller!
2025-04-21 21:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Week in Crazytown.
2025-04-19 13:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the Texas Instruments model TI-71 digital alarm clock, and so far as I know it is the first example of a full sized display LED table clock that could be bought retail. The shape reminds me...
2025-04-18 21:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This US Army film contained copyrighted music from start to finish - so much of it in fact that I held off posting it here for over a year - but recently YouTube introduced AI music deletion tools ...
2025-04-15 13:53:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
2025-04-14 14:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Get the lights.... Thread the projector.... Pop the popcorn.
2025-04-13 00:59:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
2025-04-11 12:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Just when you think you've seen them all here comes something unusual - definitely a piece of transitional technology somewhere between projection displays and flip clocks. It takes what was readil...
2025-04-10 20:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the past month dozens of you have signed on to the FranLab feed here on Patreon as free members - but my posts here are only visible to supporters of the channel, so why not join in and help F...
2025-04-10 15:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, the pain - How many times have I worked on this amazing all-mechanical 7-segment Lumitime clock??? Too Many is the answer - but here I am once again to do a postmortem on one of my favorite clo...
2025-04-04 17:41:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Sent in by viewer Chris in the last Viewer Mail, this little Personal Assistant from 1988 is unusual and a bit puzzling - not really a professional device, but made to look like one. Let's take a c...
2025-04-02 16:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to viewer Jesse for sending in these two Electro-Dice games from 1965 - a forgotten piece of history rediscovered! Nostalgia Neon Blinky Tree - 2025-04-01 16:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
