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Who doesn’t want to use a programming language that is designed to be reliable, straightforward to learn and also happens to be certified for everything from avionics to rockets and …read more Continue reading Programming Ada: First Steps on the Desktop
A new report promotes preventing cyberattacks by using memory-safe languages and the development of software safety standards. Continue reading White House Recommends Memory-Safe Programming Languages and Security-by-Design
From the consumer space it often would appear as if Intel’s CPU making history is pretty much a straight line from the 4004 to the 8080, 8088 and straight into …read more Continue reading The i960: When Intel Almost Went RISC
Have your say on three deep questions posed by this week’s podcast. Read or listen as suits you best… Continue reading S3 Ep104: Should hospital ransomware attackers be locked up for life? [Audio + Text]
Hacking on actual computers is one thing, but hacking purposefully on imaginary computers is, these days, something we can only imagine. Continue reading Move over Patch Tuesday – it’s Ada Lovelace Day!
Back in the last century, the US Department of Defense declared that Ada was going to be used everywhere and for everything. Books were published, schools build curriculum. Working programmers, however, filled out waivers to continue working in their languages of choice. As a result, only a little bit of …read more
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get caught up on the most interesting hacks of the past week. On this episode we take a deep dive into radiation-monitor projects, both Geiger tube and scintillator based, as well as LED cube projects that pack pixels onto six PCBs with parts …read more
The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages used for the embedded computer systems that increasingly made up essential parts of military projects. Instead, Ada was designed …read more
Continue reading Why Ada Is The Language You Want To Be Programming Your Systems With
We were contacted by [morbo] to let us know about a project on the AdaCore blog that concerns programming a PicoRV32 RISC-V softcore with Ada. The softcore itself runs on a Lattice ICE40LP8K-based TinyFPGA-BX FPGA board, which we have covered in the past.
The blog post describes how to use the Community edition of the GNAT Ada compiler to set up the development environment, before implementing a simple example project that controls a strip of WS28212b RGB LED modules. There are two push buttons changing the animation and brightness of the lights.
The source can be found at the author’s …read more
Most sites still don’t do popups correctly, because many developers don’t even realize that blind people are using their websites. Continue reading You Think Popup Ads Are Bad? They’re Even Worse for the Blind