Collaborate Disseminate
With two cores at 240 MHz and about 8.5 MB of non-banked RAM if you’re using the right ESP32-S3 version, this MCU seems at least in terms of specifications to …read more Continue reading Xcc700: Self-Hosted C Compiler for the ESP32/Xtensa
During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one …read more Continue reading Microsoft’s WebTV is Being Revived by Fans
Until the 2000s, game consoles existed primarily to bring a bit of the gaming arcade experience to homes, providing graphical feats that the average home computer would struggle to emulate. …read more Continue reading Playing a Game of Linux on your Sony Playstation 2
Scientific calculators are an amazing invention that take pocket calculators from being merely basic arithmetic machines to being pocket computers that can handle everything from statistics to algebra. That said, …read more Continue reading The Rise of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators
UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also considered to have been …read more Continue reading Only Known Copy of UNIX V4 Recovered From Tape
Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine …read more Continue reading The Birotary Engine Explained
To make aerated concrete, add a foam-forming agent and stir in a significant amount of air. This serves to make the concrete significantly lighter, better insulating, and more resilient to …read more Continue reading Create Aerated Concrete Using Xanthan Gum and Dishwashing Liquid
Every system administrator worth their salt knows that the right way to coax changes to network infrastructure onto a production network is to first validate it on a Staging network: …read more Continue reading Cloudflare’s Outages and Why Cool Kids Test on Prod
At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, …read more Continue reading What to do When Your Foucault Pendulum Stops Swinging
Everyone loves a full-wave bridge rectifier, but there’s no denying that they aren’t 100% efficient due to the diode voltage drop. Which isn’t to say that with some effort we …read more Continue reading Active Ideal Full Bridge Rectifier using TEA2208T