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More and more of the ‘smart’ gadgets like watches and phones that we carry around with us these days come with features that we’d not care to ever need. Since …read more Continue reading Pixel Watch 3’s Loss of Pulse Detection: the Algorithms That Tell Someone is Dying
Although taken for granted these days, autofocus (AF) used to be a premium feature on film- and digital cameras, with [Markus Kohlpaintner] taking us through an exhaustive overview of Canon’s …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive Into Canon Autofocus Lenses
In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque loop through purgatory, as effectively the same problems are being solved over and over, …read more Continue reading TrapC: A C Extension For the Memory Safety Boogeyman
Recently there was a panicked scrambling after the announcement by [Tarlogic] of a ‘backdoor’ found in Espressif’s popular ESP32 MCUs. Specifically a backdoor on the Bluetooth side that would give …read more Continue reading The ESP32 Bluetooth Backdoor That Wasn’t
SD cards & the much smaller microSD cards are found on many devices, with the card often accessible from outside the enclosure. Unfortunately there’s a solid chance that especially small …read more Continue reading Fixing an Unpleasant SD Card Slot Issue In a NanoVNA
Although most people would use C, C++ or MicroPython for programming microcontrollers, there are a few more obscure options out there as well, with MicroZig being one of them. Recently …read more Continue reading Writing an OLED Display Driver in MicroZig
Inspired by the N64: Recompiled project, XenonRecomp does something similar, except for the PowerPC-equipped Microsoft Xbox 360 game console. Based around the triple-core IBM CPU codenamed ‘Xenon‘, the Xbox 360 …read more Continue reading Run Xbox 360 Games on Your PC With XenonDecomp
As part of the payloads on the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (BGM1) that recently touched down on the Moon, the Lunar GNNS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) has become the first …read more Continue reading GNSS Signals Tracked on the Moon By LuGRE
Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. …read more Continue reading The Long Goodbye: More Instruments Shut Down on the Voyagers as End Nears
Things are heating up in the world of nuclear fusion research, with most fundamental issues resolved and an increasing rate of announcements being made regarding commercial fusion power. China’s CNNC …read more Continue reading China Claims Commercial Nuclear Fusion by 2050 as Germany Goes Stellarator