Collaborate Disseminate
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
Even in 2025 there are still many applications for a simple Disk Operating System (DOS), whether this includes running legacy software (including MS-DOS games & Windows 3.x), or (embedded) systems …read more Continue reading FreeDOS 1.4 Released
Using USB for powering devices is wonderful, as it frees us from a tangle of incompatible barrel & TRS connectors, not to mention a veritable gaggle of proprietary power connectors. …read more Continue reading Why USB-C Splitters Can Cause Magic Smoke Release
Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great, but not every device that’s marketed as an ultrasonic cleaner is necessarily such a device. In a recent video on the Cheap & Cheerful …read more Continue reading Teardown of a Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner
On 31 March of this year we had to bid farewell to Charlotte Elizabeth “Betty” Webb (née Vine-Stevens) at the age of 101. She was one of the cryptanalysts who …read more Continue reading Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park & Pentagon Code Breaker