Mira] found himself slipping into a bit of a rabbit hole while investigating why only under Apple II MAME emulation there was ...

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Some readers may recall building a line-following robot during their school days. Involving some IR LEDs, perhaps a bit of LEGO, and plenty of trial-and-error, it was fun on a tiny scale. Now ...