Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s a slice of history that will make any retro-tech fan grin: before TikTok and iMovie, there was a beast called the Videonics DirectED Plus. This early attempt at democratizing …read more Continue reading Videonics: The Dawn of Home Video Editing, Revisited
Before flat screen technologies took over, we associate TV with the CRT. But there were other display technologies that worked, they just weren’t as practical. One scheme was the Nipkow …read more Continue reading Building a DIY Nipkow Disk Display
Cameras are a funny rabbit hole to fall down as a hacker, because we have well over a century of items to pick and choose from, a lot of which …read more Continue reading Capturing Light In A Vacuum: The Magic Of Tube Video Cameras
Over the decades the video and music industries have tried a wide range of ways to get consumers to buy ‘cheaper’ versions of albums and music, but then limit the …read more Continue reading 2View: The Self-Erasing VHS Tape With Paperclip Hack
Long before we had internet newsfeeds or Twitter, Ceefax delivered up-to-the-minute news right to your television screen. Launched by the BBC in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service, …read more Continue reading Ceefax: The Original News on Demand
Making microcontrollers produce video has long been a staple of hardware hacking, but as the resolution goes up, it becomes a struggle for less capable silicon. To get higher resolution …read more Continue reading Dual-Port RAM For a Simple VGA Card
[Ryan Miceli] had spent a few years pouring over and reverse-engineering Halo 2 when a friend asked for a favor. His friend created an improved Xbox with significant overclocks, RAM …read more Continue reading If You Give A Dev A Tricked Out Xbox, They’ll Patch Halo 2
[Scott] has a neat little closet in his carport that acts as a shelter and rest area for their outdoor cat, Rory. She has a bed and food and water, …read more Continue reading Using OpenCV To Catch a Hungry Thief
We love hearing about a good experiment, and here’s a pretty neat one: researchers used a VR headset, an off-the-shelf VR360 camera, and some custom software to glue them together. …read more Continue reading Giving People an Owl-like Visual Field via VR Feels Surprisingly Natural
Alibaba’s EMO (or Emote Portrait Alive) framework is a recent entry in a series of attempts to generate a talking head using existing audio (spoken word or vocal audio) and …read more Continue reading EMO: Alibaba’s Diffusion Model-Based Talking Portrait Generator