During his continuing analysis of the architecture and microcode of Intel’s highly influential 8087 floating point unit (FPU) ...
It is a classic Hackaday situation. You have an Egret GT E-scooter. It has a screen that shows the usual dash stats, but that led to an annoyance. You could accidentally enter firmware update mode ...
Clocks are almost the ideal devices to inspire creativity in hackers — they have a simple, well-defined task, but there’s an ...
We tend to think of breaking the sound barrier as a comparatively modern accomplishment, but on a smaller scale, cattle ...
Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those colorful ...
You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren’t retro enough, ...
The progression of the web browser from a tool for simple static information browsing into a do-everything computing environment has been inexorable, with package after package making the jump. Today ...
Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning. Now that it’s the 21st century, we’ve gotten used to being able to ...
[Igor] of [My Tech Fun] set out to discover what differences, if any, can be found between parts printed in PC-ABS filament on an industrial 3D printer, and those from prosumer-grade machines and ...
As easy as the Sun is to observe, it’s simultaneously very hard to study due to how extreme the conditions are, even on the surface of a rather unassuming star. One of these study topics is the ...
This week Jonathan chats with Olivier Vernin of Updatecli, the tool that helps you update everything! Need to roll out dependency updates intelligently? Or even automatically deploy to a server on ...
As great as echolocation is, things can get rather messy once it’s not just you chirping away, but also hundreds of your buddies in roughly the same area. This is the scenario that the typical ...