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Leaded Solder
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Leaded Solder is a personal blog at leadedsolder.com about hardware and history. Since 2020, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Leaded Solder's multi-part DIY ColecoVision build series, noting part 2 is out. One commenter calls it a nice series.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Old computer repair, history and programming.
Most-linked posts?
- Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-11
- Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home – Part 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-12
- Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-10
- Three Times the Fun (Repairing an Apple III)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-28
- Mini5 Word Crusher2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-11
- Breaking Out of the Snail Maze (Sega Master System)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-22
What Hacker News says?
Also part 2 is out: https://www.leadedsolder.com/2020/07/10/colecovision-diy-par...
Comment linking /2020/07/10/colecovision-diy-part-2.html
on “Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home”Submitted TI-83 Plus One More as a story · 159 points
HN discussionnice series from same author: https://www.leadedsolder.com/2020/02/16/colecovision-diy-par...
Comment linking /2020/02/16/colecovision-diy-part-1.html
on “The BBC Tetris Companion”Submitted NEC’s Tetris Processor as a story · 137 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sanyo Triple Five as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted A SPARC makes a little fire as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oya, I've heard of mega-ROMs as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ascending Mount FujiNet as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted The VTech Socratic Method as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case of the Dead Mini5SX as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pretty Eight Machine as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Your Own ColecoVision at Home (Part 4 – Quadrature Controllers) as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Origin of the Species: NEC PC-8001 FDD Adapter as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Composite Video to a Famicom as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted CoCo1 composite video as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted More like SC-Forth-thousand, am I right? as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mini5 Word Crusher as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic – Leaded Solder as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lord of the Sord as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Giving my PC-6001 a LIFT as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Times the Fun: Apple /// corrosion repair as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Times the Fun (Repairing an Apple III) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PaPICOm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Outfitting my BlueSCSI disk image as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Mini5 Hello World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The BBC Tetris Companion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loonies for Loongsons as a story · 2 points
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