Collaborate Disseminate
As cheap as the WCH CH32V003 MCU is, its approximately $0.10 price tag looks far less attractive when you need to start adding on external ICs for missing basic features, …read more Continue reading Adding Temperature Sensor Functionality To The CH32V003 MCU
As one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Pyramid of Khafre on the plateau of Giza has been a true wonder of the Ancient World ever since its …read more Continue reading Looking At How Pyramids Were Built Using Their Casing Stones
Although BASIC was most commonly used on home computers like the Commodore VIC-20, it was possible to write programs in other languages, such as Forth. Conveniently, all it took to …read more Continue reading Learn Forth On The Commodore VIC-20
The Earth’s ionosphere is the ionized upper part of the atmosphere, and it’s also the most dynamic as it swells and ebbs depending on whether it’s exposed to the Sun …read more Continue reading Ham Radio Operators’ Ionospheric Science During The Solar Eclipse
Recently [Roberto Barrios] got his hands on a Rohde & Schwarz EB200 monitoring and surveillance receiver that, despite its late 90s vintage, was in mint condition. Aside from damage to …read more Continue reading Creating a New Metal Rohde & Schwarz EB200 Miniport Receiver Dial Knob
That EPROMs, EEPROMs and kin can be used as programmable logic should probably not come as a major surprise, but [Jimmy] has created a Lisp-based project that makes using these …read more Continue reading Using EPROMS and EEPROMs As Programmable Logic With Lisp
Born from a passion for caving and the wish to turn this into a digital adventure for all ages, Colossal Cave Adventure has grown from its quiet introduction in 1976 …read more Continue reading The Many Ways To Play Colossal Cave Adventure After Nearly Half a Century
Before there were massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) like EverQuest, the genre was called a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), following in the trend of calling text adventures at that time …read more Continue reading Remembering The MUDdiest of Times With The MUD1 and MUD2 Online RPGs
Do we live in a simulation? This is one of those questions which has kept at least part of humanity awake at night, and which has led to a number …read more Continue reading The Simulated Universe Thought Experiment And Information Entropy
Interpolation and digital cropping are two techniques which are commonly used by marketing folk to embellish the true specifications of a device. Using digital cropping a fictitious zoom level can …read more Continue reading Using LEDs To Determine a Video Camera’s True Framerate