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Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a recent paper …read more Continue reading Analog Optical Computer for Inference and Combinatorial Optimization
Released in July of 2025, the Tamagotchi Paradise may look somewhat like the late 90s toy that terrorized parents and teachers alike for years, but it’s significantly more complex and …read more Continue reading Using an MCU’s Own Debug Peripheral to Defeat Bootrom Protection
Keeping track of time is essential, even for microcontrollers, which is why a real-time clock (RTC) peripheral is a common feature in MCUs. In the case of the STM32 family …read more Continue reading Bare Metal STM32: the Various Real Time Clock Flavors
Beyond the simple world of basic PLA filaments there is a whole wild world of additives that can change this humble material for better or worse. The most common additives …read more Continue reading Bambu Lab’s PLA Tough+ Filament: Mostly a Tough Sell
Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people to …read more Continue reading A Love Letter to Internet Relay Chat
The 1993 Pioneer LaserActive certainly ranks high on the list of obscure video games. It was an odd duck; it used both a LaserDisc for data storage and provided compatibility …read more Continue reading The Sixteen-Year Odyssey to Finally Emulate the Pioneer LaserActive Console
People think about NiMH cell chargers probably as much as they think about batteries, unless it’s time to replace the cells in whatever device they’re installed in. This doesn’t make …read more Continue reading Teardown of a Cheapish EBL Multi-Cell NiMH Charger
With the days of dial-up and pitiful 2G data connections long behind most of us, it would seem tempting to stop caring about how much data an end-user is expected …read more Continue reading Engineering for Slow Internet Even When Not Stuck in Antarctica
Developing Android applications seems like it should be fairly straightforward if you believe the glossy marketing by Google and others. It’s certainly possible to just follow the well-trodden path, use …read more Continue reading Bootstrapping Android Development: a Survival Guide
If there’s one certainty in life, it is that Nintendo Famicom and similar NES clone consoles are quite literally everywhere. What’s less expected is that they were used for a …read more Continue reading The Nintendo Famicom Reimagined as a 2003-era Family Computer