Collaborate Disseminate
Video gamers know about cheat codes, but assembly language programmers are often in search of undocumented instructions. One way to find them is to map out all of a CPU’s …read more Continue reading Finding Undocumented 8086 Instructions Via Microcode
Illumos is an OpenSolaris-derived Unix system, and no Unix is complete without a C compiler or two. And with a name like Portable C Compiler (PCC), you would think that …read more Continue reading Illumos Gets a New C Compiler
Water is heavy, so if you think about it, a moving ocean wave has quite a bit of energy. Scientists have a new way to use triboelectric generators to harvest …read more Continue reading Improving Ocean Power with Static Electricity
If you want a strong magnet, the obvious answer is to buy one. However, for a variety of reasons, you might want to combine several smaller magnets. There are a …read more Continue reading Halbach Array Makes Magnets Strong, Weak
Detecting gravity waves isn’t easy. But what if you had a really big detector for a long time? That’s what researchers did when they crunched 15 years’ worth of data …read more Continue reading Gravity Wave Detector is Galactic Sized
We like to see people building things that are a little unusual, and we really like it when said unusual thing uses salvaged parts. This project from [JGJMatt] ticks all …read more Continue reading Planar Speaker Build Uses Hard Drive Magnets
A few days ago, I ran into an online post where someone pointed out the book “Learn to Program with Assembly” and asked if anyone had ever learned assembly language …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Learn Assembly First, Last, or Never?
If you hack things in the real world, you probably have one or more rolls of duck tape. Outside of the cute brand name, many people think that duck tape …read more Continue reading How Duck Tape Became Famous
We’ve taken ICs apart before, but if they are in an epoxy package, it requires some lab gear and a lot of safety. Typically, you’ll heat the part and use …read more Continue reading No Acid: Open ICs with a Tesla Coil
If you’ve ever wanted to watch someone bring CP/M up on a new system and you have a couple of hours to spare, check out the recorded live stream of …read more Continue reading CP/M Porting in a Few Hours