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Much like how BusyBox crams many standard Unix commands and a shell into a single executable, so too does BreezyBox provide a similar experience for the ESP32 platform. A demo …read more Continue reading BreezyBox: A BusyBox-Like Shell and Virtual Terminal for ESP32
It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been skyrocketing due to increased automation, courtesy of Litton Industry’s …read more Continue reading How Industrial Robot Safety Was Written in Blood
Although [Thomas] really likes the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and the RP2350 MCU, he absolutely, totally, really doesn’t like the micro-USB connector on it. Hence he jumped on the opportunity …read more Continue reading Comparing a Clone Raspberry Pi Pico 2 With an Original One
Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much larger singular radio telescope. …read more Continue reading Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together
As part of his quest to find the best affordable generator for his DIY hydroelectric power system, [FarmCraft101] is trying out a range of off-the-shelf and DIY solutions, with in …read more Continue reading Rewinding a Car Alternator for 240 Volt
Originally released for the Sony PlayStation in 1998, Resident Evil 2 came on two CDs and used 1.2 GB in total. Of this, full-motion video (FMV) cutscenes took up most …read more Continue reading How Resident Evil 2 for the N64 Kept its FMV Cutscenes
The KDE desktop’s new login manager (PLM) in the upcoming Plasma 6.6 will mark the first time that KDE requires that the underlying OS uses systemd, if one wishes for …read more Continue reading KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems
There are a few possible ways to do a teardown of new electronics like the Apple AirTag 2 tracker, with [electronupdate] opting to go down to the silicon level, with …read more Continue reading Teardown of an Apple AirTag 2 With Die Shots
Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns …read more Continue reading How Vibe Coding is Killing Open Source
Although generally described as a document format, PDFs have ballooned from a Postscript-lite format into a mutant featuring XML and JavaScript support, basically turning what once was a fairly simple …read more Continue reading Running DOOM and Super Mario 64 Inside a PDF File