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Apple welcomed Georgia Tech into the New Silicon Initiative program, which pairs universities with Apple mentors to promote semiconductor engineering. Continue reading Georgia Tech Chip Design Program Empowers the Apple Workforce of Tomorrow
Apple welcomed Georgia Tech into the New Silicon Initiative program, which pairs universities with Apple mentors to promote semiconductor engineering. Continue reading Georgia Tech Chip Design Program Empowers the Apple Workforce of Tomorrow
For vintage calculator fans, nothing strikes more fear than knowing that someday their precious and irreplaceable daily driver will become a museum piece to be looked at and admired — …read more Continue reading Slim Tactile Switches Save Classic TI Calculator with a Bad Keypad
Texas Instruments has announced a new DLP display controller that’s markedly smaller than previous iterations, and is designed to cater to a new wave of compact 4K UHD projectors as well as augmented-reality glasses.Continue ReadingCategory: Home Enter… Continue reading New chip design heralds arrival of compact low-power 4K projectors
While most of us now remember Radio Shack as a store that tried to force us to buy batteries and cell phones whenever we went to buy a few transistors …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Enhances RadioShack Computer Kit
Even though Texas Instruments were the first company to produce an integrated circuit and a microprocessor, their success as a company in the 60s and 70s was not guaranteed. At …read more Continue reading Upgrading At Least One Component of a TI Calculator
Although for most generations alive today the era of microcontrollers (MCU) feels like it starts somewhere with the Intel 8051 and AVR MCUs, the history of these self-contained computing marvels …read more Continue reading The Early History Of The Microcontroller: It Came From Texas
We’re always looking for interesting biohacks here on Hackaday, and this new research article describing a calibrated pulse oximeter for different skin tones really caught our attention. Pulse oximeters are …read more Continue reading Perfecting the Pulse Oximeter
Working on retro computers is rarely straightforward, as [ukmaker] recently found out while designing a new display interface. Their oscilloscope was having trouble triggering on the video signal produced by …read more Continue reading An Oscilloscope Trigger For Vintage Video Processors
Texas Instruments isn’t the name you usually hear associated with the first microprocessor. But the TI TMX 1795 was an 8008 chip produced months before the 8008. It was never …read more Continue reading Exploring Texas Instrument’s Forgotten CPU