Collaborate Disseminate
In a recent article on The Chip Letter [Babbage] looks at the Intel iAPX 432 computer architecture. This was an ambitious, hyper-CISC architecture that was Intel’s first 32-bit architecture. As a stack-based …read more Continue reading Intel’s iAPX 432: Gordon Moore’s Gamble and Intel’s Failed 32-bit CISC
Looking back on what programming used to be like can be a fascinatingly entertaining thing, which is why [Tough Developer] decided to download and try using Turbo C and C++, …read more Continue reading Revisiting Borland Turbo C and C++
A recent paper published by researchers at the university of Tel Aviv in Cell on the sounds they captured from ‘stressed’ plants had parts of the internet abuzz with what …read more Continue reading The Sounds Emitted By Plants Are Real But They Are Still Not Talking
When it comes to professional medium format analog cameras, the Mamiya RB67 is among the most well-known and loved, ever since its introduction in 1970. Featuring not only support for …read more Continue reading Reviving a Legend: Mamiya RB67 Repair
Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can …read more Continue reading Self-Healing Concrete: What Ancient Roman Concrete Can Teach Us
Observing a colony, swarm or similar grouping of creatures like ants or zebrafish over longer periods of time can be tricky. Simply recording their behavior with a camera misses a …read more Continue reading Creating a 3D Visualization of Freely Moving Organisms Using Camera Array and Software Algorithm
Despite the popular adage about everything on the internet being there forever, every day pages of information and sometimes entire websites are lost to the sands of time. With the …read more Continue reading Archiving the Entirety of DPReview Before It’s Gone
Running a debugger like gdb with real-mode 16-bit code on the x86 platform is not the easiest thing to do, but incredibly useful when it comes to analyzing BIOS firmware …read more Continue reading Debugging and Analyzing Real-Mode 16-Bit x86 Code With Fresh Bread
Recently, the European Commission (EC) adopted a new proposal intended to enable and promote the repair of a range of consumer goods, including household devices like vacuum cleaners and washing …read more Continue reading Europe’s Proposed Right-To-Repair Law: a Game Changer, or Business As Usual?
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft robot that moves in a distinctly caterpillar-like manner. As detailed in the research paper in Science Advances by [Shuang Wu] …read more Continue reading Caterpillar-Like Soft Robot With Distributed Programmable Thermal Actuation