Collaborate Disseminate
How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inverse square law, or Maxwell’s equations? This is one of …read more Continue reading Testing Coulomb’s Law and Similar Fundamentals Yourself Remains Tricky
Although we often think that we got certain aspects of aerodynamics pretty much licked at this point, details like the optimal shape of a propeller remains hotly debated, both in- …read more Continue reading Pitting a CFD-Optimized Toroidal Propeller Against a Conventional One
Mipmapping is a good way to add a lot more detail to a 3D scene without overburdening the rendering hardware with detail that won’t be seen by the user. This …read more Continue reading Jet Megatextures Demo for ESP32-S3
Although the Nintendo 64 was the first to bring real 3D graphics to the table in 1996, the Super Nintendo had an ace up its sleeve in the form of …read more Continue reading Using the SNES Super FX Chip to Run Super Mario 64
Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such reverse-engineering is …read more Continue reading Going on a Tangent with the Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm
In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After …read more Continue reading When the Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values
Recently French and international researchers took a look at the state of the thousands of barrels of radioactive waste that were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 1990, …read more Continue reading The Low-Level Waste Dumps in The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems
Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine. This is a pretty nice 24-port rackmounted …read more Continue reading Reviving the PoE++ Feature on a Ubiquiti Switch
After recently working our way through UDP broadcasting and network subnetting all in the comfort zone of IPv4, it’s time to address the elephant in the room, the one wearing …read more Continue reading UDP Broadcasting and the Brave New World of IPv6
Although [Arkandas] disclaims any interest in being a ‘car guy’, this is somewhat ironic in light of the sheer amount of modding he has performed on a range of cars …read more Continue reading A Mini’s Infotainment System and the Joys of Aftermarket Car Parts