Modernizing a Classic Datsun Engine Although Nissan has been in the doldrums ever since getting purchased by Renault in the early 2000s, it once had a reputation as a car company that was always on …read more #hacking #projects image
All Projections Suck, So Play Risk on a Globe Instead The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe you like the Watterman Butterfly, but your cousin really digs Gall-Peters, …read more #hacking #projects image
TULIP: The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral for the HP-41 Handheld Calculator [Andrew Menadue] wrote in to let us know about the TULIP-DevBoard and TULIP-Module being developed on GitHub. TULIP is short for “The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral” and it’s an everything expansion …read more #hacking #projects image
Xcc700: Self-Hosted C Compiler for the ESP32/Xtensa With two cores at 240 MHz and about 8.5 MB of non-banked RAM if you’re using the right ESP32-S3 version, this MCU seems at least in terms of specifications to …read more #hacking #projects image
Vice of Old Brought to the Modern Age People say they don’t make em’ like they used to, and while this isn’t always the case, it’s certainly true that old vices rarely die with time. This doesn’t mean …read more #hacking #projects image
Linux Fu: Compose Yourself! Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering everything from mathematical operators and phonetic alphabets to emoji and obscure historical scripts. …read more #hacking #projects image
The Confusing World Of Bus Mice The USB port which first appeared on our computers some time in the mid-1990s has made interfacing peripherals an easy task, save for the occasional upside down connector. But in …read more #hacking #projects image
Know Audio: Microphone Basics A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his …read more #hacking #projects image
Microsoft’s WebTV is Being Revived by Fans During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one …read more #hacking #projects image
39C3: Liberating ESP32 Bluetooth Bluetooth is everywhere, but it’s hard to inspect. Most of the magic is done inside a Bluetooth controller chip, accessed only through a controller-specific Host-Controller Interface (HCI) protocol, and almost …read more #hacking #projects image