Collaborate Disseminate
The SGI O2 was SGI’s last-ditch attempt at a low-end MIPS-based workstation back in 1996, and correspondingly didn’t use the hottest parts of the time, nor did it offer much …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2
Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law, requiring among other things that operating system providers implement an API for age verification purposes. With the …read more Continue reading California’s Problematic Attempt to add Age-Verification to Software
In theory HDMI’s CEC feature is great, as it gives HDMI devices the ability to do useful things such as turning on multiple HDMI devices with a single remote control. …read more Continue reading Prevent your Denon Receiver Turning on From Rogue Nvidia Shield CEC Requests
Elastocaloric materials are a class of materials that exhibit a big change in temperature when exposed to mechanical stress. This could potentially make them useful as solid-state replacement for both …read more Continue reading Using a Solid-State Elastocaloric Cooler to Freeze Water
If you were to read the README of the Vib-OS project on GitHub, you’d see it advertised as a Unix-like OS that was written from scratch, runs on ARM64 and …read more Continue reading Trying a Vibe-Coded Operating System
Phase-coherent lasers are crucial for many precision tasks, including timekeeping. Here on Earth the most stable optical oscillators are used in e.g. atomic clocks and many ultra-precise scientific measurements, such …read more Continue reading Creating an Ultra-Stable Lunar Clock With a Cryogenic Silicon Cavity Laser
Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor. In their continuing efforts to build a full-sized, …read more Continue reading Inside SKALA: How Chernobyl’s Reactor Was Actually Controlled
If all you want is just a basic WiFi extender that gets some level of network connectivity to remote parts of your domicile, then it might be tempting to get …read more Continue reading Exploring Security Vulnerabilities in a Cheapo WiFi Extender
Before it became viable to distribute and play music tracks on home computers, the use of FM and Wavetable synthesis was very common, with MIDI Wavetable-based devices like the Roland …read more Continue reading A Look Inside the Creative MB-10 MIDI Blaster
Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the Perseverance Mars rover that can give …read more Continue reading NASA Uses Mars Global Localization as GNSS Replacement for the Perseverance Rover