Collaborate Disseminate
[Action Retro] came into an antique Sol-20 computer and argues that it was the first totally integrated computer aimed at consumers that didn’t require you to buy or build some …read more Continue reading Sol-20 Integrated Computer Teardown
While the world has been racing for higher and higher bit counts for CPUs, there are always those that buck the trend. Consider the venerable Motorola MC14500B, a 1-bit CPU, …read more Continue reading Too Cool for 8-bit Retro? Try 1-bit Gaming
What do you do when you have a lot of LiDAR data and not enough budget to slog through it? That’s the problem the Heritage Quest project was faced with …read more Continue reading Citizen Science Finds Prehistoric Burial Mounds
If you use supports for FDM 3D printing, you might find that some designs are more amenable than others to automatically-generated supports. [Slant 3D] , for example, shows a cool-looking …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Support Gets Down to Tacks
Lately, there has been a push for people to stop using programming languages that don’t promote memory safety. But as we still haven’t seen the death of some languages that …read more Continue reading Modernizing C Arrays for Greater Memory Safety
The news is full of speculation about chatbots like GPT-3, and even if you don’t care, you are probably the kind of person that people will ask about it. The …read more Continue reading Understanding AI Chat Bots with Stanford Online
One of the most powerful features of Unix and Linux is that using traditional command line tools, everything is a stream of bytes. Granted, modern software has blurred this a …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: The Shell Forth Programmers will Love
In Star Trek, dilithium crystals — whatever those are — are critical to the operation of a starship’s warp drives. But a Texas professor thinks he can make a baby …read more Continue reading Developing Warp Drive Might Take Antifreeze
If you zoom into the screen you are reading this on, you’d see an extremely fine pattern of red, green, and blue emitters, probably LEDs of some kind. This somewhat …read more Continue reading LED Displays May Get Vertical Integration
In theory, using MicroPython on the ESP32 is easy — just flash an image and connect using a serial port. But that leaves a lot of things you still have …read more Continue reading MicroPython ESP32 IDE Makes Life Simpler