Ray Marching in Excel 3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel …read more #hacking #projects image
Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants in Ocarina of Time What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the premise of the Nintendo …read more #hacking #projects image
Are We Ready for AR Smart Glasses Yet? In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready to hang a computer screen …read more #hacking #projects image
Quote Printer Keeps Receipts In the world of social media, “keeping receipts” refers to the practice of storing evidence that may come in handy for a callout post at a later date. For [Teddy …read more #hacking #projects image
FPGA Dev Kit Unofficially Brings MSX Standard Back In the 1980s there were an incredible number of personal computers of all shapes, sizes, and operating system types, and there was very little interoperability. Unlike today’s Windows-Mac duopoly, this …read more #hacking #projects image
Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again [Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some …read more #hacking #projects image
Teardown of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these are related to keeping …read more #hacking #projects image
The Setun Was a Ternary Computer from the USSR in 1958 [Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in 1958. Its troubled and …read more #hacking #projects image
Pickle Diodes, Asymmetric Jacobs Ladders, and Other AC Surprises While we’re 100 years past Edison’s fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign, the fact of the matter is that DC is a bit easier to wrap one’s head around. It’s just …read more #hacking #projects image
Printing in Metal with DIY SLM An accessible 3D printer for metals has been the holy grail of amateur printer builders since at least the beginning of the RepRap project, but as tends to be the …read more #hacking #projects image