Collaborate Disseminate
With ARM processors increasingly becoming part of the desktop ecosystem, porting code that was written for x86_64 platforms is both necessary and a massive undertaking. For many codebases a simple …read more Continue reading Hybrid Binaries On Windows for ARM: ARM64EC and ARM64X Explained
Although the components of wood – cellulose and lignin – are exceedingly cheap and plentiful, combining these into a wood-like structure is not straightforward, despite many attempts to make these …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Real Wood With Just Cellulose and Lignin
Finding extraterrestrial life in any form would be truly one of the largest discoveries in humankind’s history, yet after decades of scouring the surface of Mars and investigating other bodies …read more Continue reading Complex Organic Chemistry In Sulfuric Acid and Life on Venus
With the recent string of lunar landing attempts, it’s interesting to consider how much things have changed – or stayed the same – since the first soft landing attempts in …read more Continue reading The Lunar Odyssey: Moon Landings From the 1960s to Today’s Attempts
The Commodore CHESSmate chess computer might not be terribly well known, but that doesn’t make it any less worthy of being reproduced. If anything it is more important, as it …read more Continue reading Commodore CHESSmate Replica Runs on the ESP32
Building your own handheld gaming console has been a popular project for many years, but recently it has become significantly easier to get a lot of power into a small …read more Continue reading Using a Framework Mainboard for a Custom Gaming Handheld
The Chandra X-ray Observatory started its mission back in 1999 when Space Shuttle Columbia released it from its payload bay. Originally, it was supposed to serve only a five-year mission, …read more Continue reading The Chandra X-Ray Observatory Faces Shutdown in FY2025 Budget
Among all the amazing technologies that were promised to us, there is one that is much more egregious than the lack of flying cars and real hovering hoverboards: the lack …read more Continue reading A Fully Automatic British Breakfast: Ready While You Sleep
For months, there has been a rising fear that we may have to say farewell to the Voyager 1 spacecraft after it began to send back garbled data. Now, in …read more Continue reading NASA Engineers Poke Voyager 1 and Receive Memory Dump
An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of …read more Continue reading Making Floating Point Calculations Less Cursed When Accuracy Matters