Proof of that can be found in every inch of this gorgeous custom controller, which uses a nearly 40-year-old TI-99 computer, plus 3D-printed parts, to deliver a fully functional control panel.

Sure, we see lots of weather stations, but this one is controlled by a TI 99/4A computer. This home computer from the 1980s was actually ahead of its time with a 16-bit processor.

Famed calculator maker Texas Instruments’ first stab at the home computer market arrived in 1979 with the flawed TI-99/4, which included a poor keyboard, no support for lowercase characters, and ...