Collaborate Disseminate
The General Instruments AY-3-8910 was a quite popular Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) that saw itself used in a wide variety of systems, including Apple II soundcards such as the Mockingboard …read more Continue reading Something is Very Wrong With the AY-3-8913 Sound Generator
A major bottleneck with high-frequency wireless communications is the conversion from radio frequencies to optical signals and vice versa. This is performed by an electro-optic modulator (EOM), which generally are …read more Continue reading Plasmonic Modulators Directly Convert Terahertz Waves to Optical Signals
An unavoidable part of old home computer systems and kin like the Commodore PET is that due to the age of their components they will develop issues that go far …read more Continue reading A Tricky Commodore PET Repair and a Lesson About Assumptions
Whilst recently perusing the fine wares for sale at VCF East, [Action Retro] ended up adopting a 1995 ProStar laptop. Unlike most laptops of the era, however, this one didn’t …read more Continue reading The ProStar: the Portable Gaming System and Laptop From 1995
Have you ever felt the urge to make your own private binary format for use in Linux? Perhaps you have looked at creating the smallest possible binary when compiling a …read more Continue reading Learning Linux Kernel Modules Using COM Binary Support
Recently [Dillan Stock] over at The Stock Pot YouTube channel bought a $17 ‘mushroom’ lamp from his local Kmart that listed ‘USB-C rechargeable’ as one of its features, the only problem …read more Continue reading Hacking a Cheap Rechargeable Lamp With Non-Standard USB-C Connector
One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can …read more Continue reading Tracing the #!: How the Linux Kernel Handles the Shebang
Human biology is very much like that of other mammals, and yet so very different in areas where it matters. One of these being human neurology, with aspects like the …read more Continue reading Creating a Somatosensory Pathway From Human Stem Cells
Once the domain of esoteric scientific and business computing, floating point calculations are now practically everywhere. From video games to large language models and kin, it would seem that a …read more Continue reading Using Integer Addition to Approximate Float Multiplication
Ion thrusters are an amazing spacecraft propulsion technology, providing very high efficiency with relatively little fuel. Yet getting one to produce more thrust than that required to lift a sheet …read more Continue reading Improving Magnetoplasmadynamic Ion Thrusters With Superconductors