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For some time now [Tobi Friedly] has been tinkering away at porting the original Super Mario 64 from the Nintendo 64 to just about any device imaginable. One of these …read more Continue reading Nintendo DS Port of Super Mario 64 Released With Multiplayer Support
If you need to store some data on a resource-constrained embedded platform, the prospect of dragging in a dependency for something like FAT filesystem access to flash or other storage …read more Continue reading Skip the Embedded Filesystem with the TAR-like UTFS Format
As simple of a concept flow batteries are, the used chemicals can still be somewhat problematic in the context of a school experiment. To this end [Markus Bindhammer] decided to …read more Continue reading Building an Organic Flow Battery Based on Green Tea
As simple as the concept of adding two numbers appears at first glance, doing it in the 1970s in Intel’s 8087 FPU with its 69-bit adder was still a tall …read more Continue reading The Adder at the Heart of Intel’s 8087 FPU
As more and more of the ‘smart’ infotainment systems in cars begin to age out of support, it becomes increasingly more relevant to figure out how to do something with …read more Continue reading Honda Civics and Installing Software With Android Test Keys
When [Denki Otaku] bought a ¥1,200 (roughly €6.5) XLR ground loop isolator off Japanese Amazon, he initially didn’t suspect that anything was off. Since they’re fairly simple devices, with basically …read more Continue reading Learning About Ground Loop Isolators thanks to a Scam Product
One of the joys you get to experience whether as a proud parent or pet owner is that a lot of things get left around haphazardly. You could of course …read more Continue reading Building a Ceiling-Based Crane Robot to Keep a Room Clean
A year before the arrival of the brand-new 21st millennium, the Year 2000 Bug was predicted to grind modern society to a halt and ensure that at the dawn of …read more Continue reading The Y2K Bug in BSD 2.11 that Survived 2000
We have seen a number of self-playing chess boards over the years, but the general theme has been standard chess pieces moved by either an internal electromagnet or an external …read more Continue reading Robot Chess but Each Piece is a Small Robot
Although both a SEM and a TEM are electron microscopes, their working principles and images are very different. Whereas an SEM uses secondary electrons ejected after bombarding a sample’s surface …read more Continue reading Converting a Scanning Electron Microscope Into a TEM is Surprisingly Easy