01 Whatever looks interesting

What has Rob gotten into now?

Old, new, electronic, mechanical, weird, or completely ordinary—if it looks interesting enough to mess with, it belongs here.

See what we're messing with So, what is this?

COMPUTERS✦ARCADE HARDWARE✦ODD CHIPS✦MECHANICAL THINGS✦FOUND OBJECTS✦COMPUTERS✦

The short version

It's a place for interesting stuff.

Sometimes that means restoring an old computer. Sometimes it means wiring a forty-year-old chip to an Arduino. Sometimes it means dragging home a video camera found beside a dumpster and asking the only sensible question:

“What the hell is this?
Does it work?”

Rob's Mischief is the next chapter of Classic Microcomputers—not a goodbye to it. The classic machines are still here. They just don't have to be the only things allowed through the door anymore.

03 No promises, but...

What might show up?

Think of this as a workbench with wheels. The subject changes. The curiosity doesn't.

Computers & game systems

Classic favorites, unusual new hardware, Commodore, Atari, Philips—and whatever else turns up.

STILL A MAJOR INTEREST

Chips, circuits & experiments

SARA chips, CDP1802 projects, Arduino interfaces, and ideas that start with “I wonder if...”

Repairs & resurrections

Heathkits, arcade boards, pinball hardware, and things that haven't worked since Reagan.

Mechanical curiosities

Not everything has a circuit board. Model T parts, clever mechanisms, and mysterious contraptions are fair game.

Found & forgotten things

Dumpster-side cameras, odd boxes, overlooked gadgets—anything that makes Rob stop and look twice.

This is not a list of rules. That's rather the point.

04 Occasional accomplices

The Mischief Makers

Maxi, the grandkids, and the cats sometimes join the adventure. “Join” may mean helping, supervising, wandering through the shot, or making the whole thing take twice as long.

05 From the channel