Collaborate Disseminate
Thirty-five years ago, radiation alarms went off at the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden. After an investigation, it was determined that the radiation did not come from inside the …read more Continue reading The Soviet RBMK Reactor: 35 Years After The Chernobyl Disaster
When the PineCube was announced by the Pine64 project in 2020, it created a fair bit of interest. Most of this was due to the appeal of a single-board computer …read more Continue reading Hands-On With PineCube: An Open IP Camera Begging for Better Kernel Support
An unfortunate property of science-fiction is that it is, tragically, fiction. Instead of soaring between the stars and countless galaxies out there, we find ourselves hitherto confined to this planet …read more Continue reading Space Propulsion: Separating Fact From Science Fiction
The 1980s and early 1990s were a bit of an odd time for semiconductor technology, with the various transistor technologies that had been used over the decades slowly making way …read more Continue reading Logic Chip Teardown From Early 1990s IBM ES/9000 Mainframe
We’re accustomed to seeing giant LED-powered screens in sports venues and outdoor displays. What would it take to bring this same technology into your living room? Very, very tiny LEDs. …read more Continue reading MicroLEDs: Lighting The Way To A Solid OLED Competitor
Most uses of high-altitude balloons are fairly simple: send balloon up, have it beam down measurements and images. While this is indeed straightforward, it is also very limiting. This is …read more Continue reading Uplink System For High-Altitude Balloons
Although first presented to the world as an April 1st joke, [Jotun]’s IRC-enabled lawnmower began life as the result of casual bantering among folk on the Undernet IRC network. When …read more Continue reading Is It A Lawnmower? Is It an RPi IRC Server? It’s Both!
With how expensive thermal cameras are, why not build your own? This is the goal with which [Dan Julio] set out a while ago, covering the project in great detail. …read more Continue reading TCam-Mini: Adding Wireless To Flir Lepton Thermal Imaging Sensors
In the most simple computer system architecture, all control lies with the CPU (Central Processing Unit). This means not only the execution of commands that affect the CPU’s internal register …read more Continue reading Direct Memory Access: Data Transfer Without Micro-Management
Interruptions aren’t just a staple of our daily lives. They’re also crucial for making computer systems work as well as they do, as they allow for a system to immediately …read more Continue reading Bare-Metal STM32: Please Mind The Interrupt Event