Collaborate Disseminate
The ESP32-S3 is by many metrics quite the powerful little computer, which has led to it being used even for things like emulating retro consoles and similar. Here [Ivan Svarkovsky]’s …read more Continue reading Deeply optimized MSX emulation on ESP32-S3 with VGA output
Although in our imagination those scale models of cars certainly can drive and steer just like their full-scale counterparts, there’s something incredibly satisfying about watching them truly come to life. …read more Continue reading Building a 1:150 scale Toyota ProBox Micro Remote Control Car
Recently [Bits und Bolts] stumbled over a pair of Dragon 3000 branded 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in his unfixed cards pile, and decided that the best course of action was …read more Continue reading Repairing a Pair of Voodoo 2 GPUs for some SLI Action
Unlike on Mars where for decades we have had dozens of orbital and ground-based platforms zipping and scurrying about to prod at every bit of emitted radiation, rock type and …read more Continue reading Evidence for Water Vapor Plumes on Europa Vanishes in Re-Analysis
The world of software has seen many paradigms come and go, all of which were supposed to revolutionize its development. Still, one of the basic tenets in engineering of there …read more Continue reading The Merits of Comment-Driven Development as Counterweight to TDD
A buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, is typically a fullerene consisting of sixty carbon atoms (C60) arranged in a way that resembles a football-like sphere. Extending this arrangement to …read more Continue reading Introducing Boron Buckyballs
As straightforward as the concept of taking battery packs out of an old electric or hybrid car and reusing them for home power storage sounds, this thought process skips a …read more Continue reading Safely Using Old EV Batteries in Your Home Solar Setup
The custom APU at the core of Sony’s PlayStation 5 hasn’t just been quietly powering these game consoles, but also made their way onto cryptomining cards around 2023 which are …read more Continue reading Re-Enable all Compute Units on the PS5-like BC-250 Cryptomining Card
For those of us old enough to remember the harrowing days of the early 2020s, alongside another major kerfuffle there was a complete breakdown in global supply chains that led …read more Continue reading How the 2020s Chip Crisis Led to a Buggy Saleae Analyzer in 2026
After recently reviewing a Wattcycle LFP battery sent over by the manufacturer, [Will Prowse] was made aware of some disturbing changes to the internals of batteries received by regular customers. …read more Continue reading The Secret Wattcycle LFP Battery Downgrade