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3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the …read more Continue reading 3M’s Floppy Disks: A Story of Success and the Birth of Imation
Back in the hazy olden days of the pre-2000s, navigating between two locations generally required someone to whip out a paper map and painstakingly figure out the most optimal route …read more Continue reading Where Graph Theory Meets The Road: The Algorithms Behind Route Planning
After a few years of Amazon promoting a grocery shopping experience without checkout lines and frustrating self-checkout experiences, it is now ditching its Just Walk Out technology. Conceptualized as a …read more Continue reading Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Shopping is Out, Moves to Dash Carts at Its Grocery Stores
Recently, a company by former SpaceX employee Ben Nowack – called Reflect Orbital – announced that it is now ready to put gigantic mirrors in space to reflect sunshine at …read more Continue reading Space Mirrors: Dreams of Turning The Night Into Day Around the Clock
To the average microcontroller, Ethernet networks are quite a step up from the basic I2C, SPI and UART interfaces, requiring either a built-in Ethernet MAC or SPI-based MAC, with tedious …read more Continue reading SatCat5: UART, SPI and I2C via Ethernet With FPGA-Based Design
What’s the cheapest quadcopter you can build? As [Circuit Digest] demonstrates with their variant of the ESP-Drone project by Espressif, you only need a minimum of parts, with at the …read more Continue reading ESP-Drone: Building an ESP32-Based Quadcopter For Not Much Cash
The usual way to get biological tissues and materials like gels and metals to stick together is using sutures, adhesives or both. Although this generally works, it’s far from ideal, …read more Continue reading Using Electroadhesion To Reversibly Adhere Metals and Graphite to Hydrogels and Tissues
In the discussions about how dangerous self-driving cars are – or aren’t – one thing is sorely missing, and that is an interactive game in which you do your best …read more Continue reading Art Exhibit Lets You Hide From Self-Driving Cars
Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle …read more Continue reading The Intel 8088 and 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry
In the annals of game console history, the Sega Saturn is probably the most convoluted system of all time, even giving the Playstation 3 a run for its rings. Also …read more Continue reading Exploring The Sega Saturn’s Wacky Architecture