Collaborate Disseminate
As practical SD cards are, they lack much of what made floppy disks and cartridges so awesome: room for art and a list of contents, as well as the ability …read more Continue reading Making SD Cards More Nostalgic With More Cartridge-ness
Although commonly referred to as a ‘timer IC’, the venerable NE555 and derivatives are in fact not timer ICs. This perhaps controversial statement is the open door that gets kicked …read more Continue reading Why The 555 Is Not a Timer, But Can Be One
When thinking about loops in programming languages, they often get simplified down to a conditions section and a body, but this belies the dizzying complexity that emerges when considering loop …read more Continue reading Misconceptions About Loops, or: Static Code Analysis is Hard
Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of …read more Continue reading Looking At Standard-Cell Design in the Pentium processor
The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage …read more Continue reading The Flash Memory Lifespan Question: Why QLC May Be NAND Flash’s Swan Song
With both of the dominant display technologies today – LCD and OLED – being far from perfect, there is still plenty of room in the market for the Next Big …read more Continue reading PeLEDs: Using Perovskites to Create LEDs Which Also Sense Light
Most of us would equate commercial airline travel with fixed-wing aircraft, but civilian transport by helicopter, especially in large and sparsely populated regions, is common enough. It was once even …read more Continue reading A Look Back at the USSR’s Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner
It’s no big secret that a lot of the internet traffic today consists out of automated requests, ranging from innocent bots like search engine indexers to data scraping bots for …read more Continue reading Cloudflare Adds Block for AI Scrapers and Similar Bots
Throughout history, clean and potable water has been one of the most prized possessions, without which no human civilization could have ever sustained itself. Not only is water crucial for …read more Continue reading Access To Fresh And Potable Water: An Ancient And Very Current Challenge
One of the fun parts of the ESP32-S3 microcontroller is that it got upgraded to the newer Cadence Xtensa LX7 processor core, which turns out to have a range of …read more Continue reading SIMD-Accelerated Computer Vision on the ESP32-S3