Collaborate Disseminate
The console wars of the early 1990s had several players, but the battle that mattered was between Nintendo’s SNES and Sega’s Genesis, or Megadrive if you are European. They are …read more Continue reading A Proper OS For The Sega Genesis/Megadrive
We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and it’s likely that many of us will have sat in front of machines running x86, ARM, or even …read more Continue reading The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots
The plethora of smart home devices available today deliver all manner of opportunities, but it’s fair to say that interfacing with them is more often done in the browser or …read more Continue reading Monitor Your Smart Plugs on the Command Line
Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, and instead relied on a set of processes which the photographer would have to master from film …read more Continue reading A Forgotten Photographic Process Characterised
When a Loch Ness Monster story appears at the start of April, it pays to check the date on the article just to avoid red faces. But there should be …read more Continue reading The Everlasting Hunt For The Loch Ness Monster
Prototyping is a personal affair, with approaches ranging from dead-bug parts on tinplate through stripboard and protoboard, to solderless breadboards and more. Whichever you prefer, a common problem is that …read more Continue reading A Prototyping Board With Every Connector
We use ARM devices in everything from our microcontroller projects to our laptops, and many of us are aware of the architecture’s humble beginnings in a 1980s Acorn Archimedes computer. …read more Continue reading Help Propel The Original ARM OS Into The Future
Music consumption has followed a trend over the last decade or more of abandoning physical media for online or streaming alternatives. This can present a problem for young children however, …read more Continue reading Yaydio, a Music Player For Kids
The Pomdoro technique of time management has moved on a little from the tomato-shaped kitchen timer which gave it a name, as [Rukenshia] shows us with this nifty ESP32 and …read more Continue reading An ESP32 Pomdoro Timer
The sun is our planet’s source of natural illumination, and though we’ve mastered making artificial light sources, it remains extremely difficult to copy our nearby star. As if matching the …read more Continue reading An Artificial Sun In A Manageable Size