Collaborate Disseminate
In the previous installment on UDP broadcasting and service discovery, the basics of both were explored, including an implementation in the form of NyanSD and its protocol. Contained in the …read more Continue reading UDP Broadcasting and the Joys of IPv4 Subnetting
To give people the most intimate RBMK experience, the [Chornobyl Family] has been working tirelessly at not only replicating the original RBMK reactor control room and its SKALA industrial control …read more Continue reading Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home
Along with the many displays of outrage, gnashing of teeth and other displays of profound grief at the recent news that Sony will no longer manufacture physical game discs come …read more Continue reading The Death of Physical Media and the Real Challenges to Software Archiving
As good as a desktop OS may be, at some point it has to feature accelerated 3D graphics. This has been a bit of a sticking point for Haiku OS, …read more Continue reading Porting the Nvidia GPU Driver to Haiku for 3D Acceleration
Cutting foam with a hot wire is a common technique to shape foam in a wide variety of shapes. If you want to cut something detailed and precise, like an …read more Continue reading Building a Better CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutter
Targeted towards refined female gamers unlike the savagery of the mainstream game consoles of the era, 1995’s Casio Loopy was a bit of an oddity of a game console. Despite …read more Continue reading Porting DOOM to the Casio Loopy
As unique the Nintendo Wii U Gamepad may appear to be, at its core it’s pretty much just a tablet with game controls stuck on it. Now that the communication …read more Continue reading Trying to Use a 2007 Samsung UMPC as Wii U Gamepad
Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were broadcast invisibly with the TV signal. In order to get this teletext …read more Continue reading A Look Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator
After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAMDAC’s pins to correct its faulty internal Vref, [Bits und …read more Continue reading Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture
Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate when said pump runs into problems like a dry …read more Continue reading Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device