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electron.greg

I've adorned my cassette emulator device with a hand whittled label. The top panel has some bumps from through-board solder pads, so nothing I can do about that. But overall it's alright, if you don't look too closely and/or judge too harshly.

My Maxduino tape emulator that has a homemade cassette label stuck on. It is in the style of early Sinclair Research software releases. The device itself looks almost identical to an audio cassette but with buttons, sockets for USB power cable and audio cables. It also has an LED matric display where the cassette window would normally live.
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Olly 👾

ZX Spectrum, Soviet Style: A 44-IC Clone you can build.

If you’ve ever fancied building a ZX Spectrum clone without hunting down ancient ULAs or soldering your way through 60+ chips, [Alex J. Lowry] has just dropped an exciting build. He has recreated the [Leningrad-1], a Spectrum clone from 1988, with a refreshingly low component count: 44 off-the-shelf ICs.

alex-j-lowry.github.io/leningr

The original Leningrad-1 was designed by Sergey Zonov during the late Soviet era, when cloning Western tech was less about piracy and more about survival. Zonov’s design nailed a sweet spot between affordability and usability, with enough compatibility to run 90-95% of Spectrum software.
[ImageSource: Alex J. Lowry] [Alex]’s replica preserves that spirit, with a few 21st-century tweaks for builders: silkscreened component values, clever PCB stacking with nylon standoffs, and a DIY-friendly mechanical keyboard hack using transparent keycaps. All schematics, Gerbers and KiCad files are open-source, listed at the bottom of [Alex]’s build log. <https://alex-j-lowry.github.io/leningrd.html>
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