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[Hack Club] is a nonprofit network of coder and maker clubs for teenage high school students around the world. With an impressive reach boasting clubs in about 400 schools, they …read more Continue reading Hack Club Grants Encourage Open Source PCB Designs by Teens
[NASA] and a team of partners has demonstrated a space-to-ground laser communication system operating at a record breaking 200 gigabit per second (Gbps) data rate. The TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) …read more Continue reading NASA Team Sets New Space-to-Ground Laser Communication Record
To demonstrate the functionality of an 8-bit computer processor at a very basic level, [Mazen Gomaa] assembled a Homemade 8-Bit Educational Computer using common CMOS logic chips, a handful of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Scratch Made 8-Bit Educational Computer
Modern day computer artist, [Amy Goodchild] surveys a history of Early Computer Art from the 1950s and 1960s. With so much attention presently focused on AI-generated artwork, we should remember …read more Continue reading Early Computer Art from the 1950s and 1960s
Learning Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques traditionally involves working through a good bit of mathematics and signal theory. To promote a hands-on approach, [Clyne] developed the DSP PAW (Portable All-in-one …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Learn DSP With The Portable All-in-One Workstation
[NASA] Astronauts will be testing the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) to transmit live, 4K ultra-high-definition video back to Earth from the Moon. The system will also support …read more Continue reading Artemis II Will Phone Home From the Moon Using Laser Beams
[Ramin Hasani] and colleague [Mathias Lechner] have been working with a new type of Artificial Neural Network called Liquid Neural Networks, and presented some of the exciting results at a …read more Continue reading Liquid Neural Networks Do More with Less
Reddit user [nomoreimfull] posted code for a dynamic WiFi beacon to r/arduino. The simple, but clever, sketch is preloaded with some rather familiar lyrics and is configured to Rickroll wireless …read more Continue reading Rickrolling SSID with ESP32
[ExtremeElectronics] cleverly demonstrates that if one Raspberry Pi Pico is good, then nine must be awesome. The PicoCray project connects multiple Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller modules into a parallel architecture …read more Continue reading Parallel Computing on the PicoCray RP2040 Cluster
[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors during the 1980s and …read more Continue reading History of the SPARC CPU Architecture