Collaborate Disseminate
Most hydraulic jacks are big tools that can lift upwards of 1000 kg but [Maker B]’s is quite a bit smaller than average. The world’s smallest hydraulic jack is a …read more Continue reading Miniature Hydraulic Jack is a Scale Marvel
The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to build bigger CPUs, it’s been …read more Continue reading Supersize Your Intel 4004 By Over 10 Times
Necklaces aren’t often very high-tech, mostly because of the abuse they have to go through being worn. This was obviously a problem that needed solving, so [Matt Venn] decided to …read more Continue reading Increase Your Blinkenlights With This Silicon Wafer Necklace
Nice, visual simulators of CPUs such as the 6502 are usually made much later and with more modern tooling than what they simulate. But what if that wasn’t the case? …read more Continue reading A Mysterious 6502 Apple 2 simulator
The last time we covered [Dr. Scott M. Baker], he made his Heathkit H8 run on a considerably older processor than it was made for. This time, apparently still not …read more Continue reading An Intel 8008 On A Single-Board Computer
Have you ever wanted to be the best Super Mario Brothers speedrunner, but you just couldn’t do the frame-perfect inputs? Fear not, because [Gregory Strike] is here to save the …read more Continue reading Real NES Plays Frame-Perfect For You On Twitch
Have you ever wondered how the graphics in your favorite video games worked? This is the start of a series on game graphics, and what better place to start than …read more Continue reading Game Graphics: Racing The Beam
Some of you may have heard of the ROMulator, a device that can emulate RAM and ROM on 6502-based computers. But how does it work? How do you use it? …read more Continue reading Debug Your Senile Computers With The ROMulator
If you’ve ever wondered how much memory a process uses, you’ve probably used a form of task manager or system monitor. System monitors can be useful to identify resource hogs, …read more Continue reading Explore Linux Space Time
At first, string processing might seem very hard to optimize. If you’re looking for a newline in some text, you have to check every character in the string against every …read more Continue reading Faster String Processing With Bloom Filters