Collaborate Disseminate
Will piezoelectric-based speakers replace traditional speakers over the coming years in space-constrained devices? We have definitely seen the use of piezo transducers in e.g. high-end televisions that use the display’s …read more Continue reading Piezo Transducers Could Turn Displays Into Speakers
The recently published book Understanding Deep Learning by [Simon J. D. Prince] is notable not only for focusing primarily on the concepts behind Deep Learning — which should make it …read more Continue reading Understanding Deep Learning: Free MIT Press EBook For Instructors And Students
The brain is probably the least explored organ, much of which is due to the difficulty of studying it in situ rather than in slices under a microscope. Even growing …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Functional Human Brain Tissue For Research Purposes
Recently, [Thomas Sanladerer] bought an EasyThreed K9 off AliExpress for a mere €72, netting him an FDM printer with a 10 x 10 x 10 cm build volume. The build …read more Continue reading EasyThreed K9: The Value In A €72 AliExpress FDM 3D Printer
Although factors like bandwidth, power usage, and the number of (kilo)meters reach are important considerations with wireless communication for microcontrollers, latency should be another important factor to pay attention to. …read more Continue reading Benchmarking Latency Across Common Wireless Links For MCUs
Who wouldn’t want to run a UNIX-like operating system on their NES or Famicom? Although there’s arguably no practical reason for doing so, [decrazyo] has cobbled together a working port …read more Continue reading Running UNIX On A Nintendo Entertainment System
As the first part of a series, [George Emad] takes us through a few examples of the Linux operating system being used in spacecraft. These range from SpaceX’s Dragon capsule …read more Continue reading The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft
The memory map of the original 8086 computer with its base and extended memory made the original PC rather straightforward, but also posed countless issues for DOS-based applications as they …read more Continue reading Breaking Through The 1 MB Barrier In DOS With Unreal Mode And More
Back in December of 2022, a team of researchers at the USA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) …read more Continue reading NIF’s Laser Fusion Experiment’s Energy Gain Passes Peer Review
We have all heard the statistics on how safe air travel is, with more people dying and getting injured on their way to and from the airport than while traveling …read more Continue reading How Airplanes Mostly Stopped Flying Into Terrain And Other Safety Improvements