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8cc.vim is a C compiler that exists as pure Vimscript. Is it small? It sure is! How about fast? Absolutely not! Efficient? Also no. But does it work and is …read more Continue reading C Compiler Exists Entirely in Vim
Believe it or not, building a tiny compiler from scratch can be as fun as it is accessible. [James Smith] demonstrates by making a tiny compiler for an extremely simple …read more Continue reading Here’s How To Build a Tiny Compiler From Scratch
Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results. Continue reading 17 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level
Say hello to next-gen Surface laptops and a new app called Microsoft Designer. Continue reading Microsoft Surface Event October 2022: Surface Pro Laptop 5, Surface Pro 9, Surface Studio 2 Plus
Overview In the last blog post of the X86 Linux assembly series, we focused on how to make our Hello World payload friendly for use as a payload in exploits. However, we didn’t cover how to extract the payload itself for use in exploits. Sure you cou… Continue reading Linux X86 Assembly – How To Make Payload Extraction Easier
In the very early days of the PC revolution the only way to have a computer was to build one, sometimes from a kit but often from scratch. For the young, impoverished hobbyist, leafing through the pages of Popular Electronics was difficult, knowing that the revolution was passing you by. …read more
Continue reading Riding The Nostalgia Train With A 6502 From The Ground Up
When programming a microcontroller, there are some physical limitations that you’ll come across much earlier than programming a modern computer, whether that’s program size or even processor speed. To make the most use of a small chip, we can easily dig into the assembly language to optimize our code. On the other hand, modern processors in everyday computers and smartphones are so fast and have so much memory compared to microcontrollers that this is rarely necessary, but on the off-chance that you really want to dig into the assembly language for ARM, [Uri Shaked] has a tutorial to get you …read more
Continue reading Learn to Optimize Code in Assembly… for Android
One of the sticking points for us with our own Internet of Things is, ironically, the Internet part. We build hardware happily, but when it comes time to code up web frontends to drive it all, the thrill is gone and the project is only half-done.
Including some simple web-based scripting functionality along with the microcontroller basics is one of the cleverest tricks up ESP8266 BASIC’s sleeves. BASIC author [mmiscool] puts it to good use in this short demo: a complete learning IR remote control that’s driven through a web interface, written in just a few lines of BASIC.
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Continue reading ESP8266 BASIC Sets Up a Web Remote in No Time
You’d think that we’ve posted every possible clock here at Hackaday. It turns out that we haven’t. But we have seen enough that we’ve started to categorize clock builds in our minds. There are the accuracy clocks which strive to get every microsecond just right, the bizzaro clocks that aim for most unique mechanism, and then there are “hello world” clocks that make a great introduction to building stuff.
Today, we’re looking at a nice “hello world” clock. [electronics for everyone]’s build uses a stepper motor and a large labelled wheel that rotates relative to a fixed pointer. Roll the …read more
Continue reading Simple Clock is Great Stepper Motor Project