Double Your Analog Oscilloscope Fun with this Retro Beam Splitter

These days, oscilloscope hacking is all about enabling features that the manufacturer baked into the hardware but locked out in the firmware. Those hacks are cool, of course, but back …read more Continue reading Double Your Analog Oscilloscope Fun with this Retro Beam Splitter

Unpublished Slashdot Submission Dragged Into Reddit Drama About C++ Paper’s Title

Reddit’s moderators drew some criticism after “locking” a discussion about C++ paper/proposal author Andrew Tomazos. The URL (in the post with the locked discussion) had led to a submission for Slashdot’s queue of potential (but unpublished) stories, w… Continue reading Unpublished Slashdot Submission Dragged Into Reddit Drama About C++ Paper’s Title

MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game ‘ChipWits’ from 1984 is Now Open Source

Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits “helped kindle his interest in coding,” according to an online biography. (“By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by high school he authored a 3D Graphics… Continue reading MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game ‘ChipWits’ from 1984 is Now Open Source