Collaborate Disseminate
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
MIT recently announced its research on toroidal propellers to create quieter drones. That got [Major Hardware] thinking about noisy PC fans. The obvious solution was to adapt the toroidal shape …read more Continue reading Spy Drone Propeller Makes for a Quiet PC
In the old days, scanners would listen to a bunch of channels in a round-robin fashion. If a signal breaks the squelch, the scanner stops and scanning continues scanning after …read more Continue reading SDR Scanner Listens to Everything
If you are running video around your home theater, you probably use HDMI. If you are running it in a professional studio, however, you are probably using SDI, Serial Digital …read more Continue reading Arduino Does SDI Video with FPGA Help
We always enjoy unique clocks, and a recent 3D print from [David Kingsman] caught our eye. It converts an Ikea clock into a very unusual-looking “wandering hour” clock that uses …read more Continue reading Ikea Clock Gets Wanderlust
In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually …read more Continue reading Hacking the Python For Loop
We see a lot of clocks, and many of the better ones have some 3D printed elements to them. But [Carl Sabanski] shows us his kits for making sundials for …read more Continue reading Sundial Collection is 2D Printed