Windows? Linux? Browser? Same Executable We’ve been aware of projects like Cosmopolitan that allow you to crank out a single executable that will run on different operating systems. [Kamila] noticed that the idea was sound, …read more #hacking #projects image
Philips Kid’s Kit Revisited [Anthony Francis-Jones], like us, has a soft spot for the educational electronic kits from days gone by. In a recent video you can see below, he shows the insides of …read more #hacking #projects image
Making Code a Hundred Times Slower With False Sharing Writing good, performant code depends strongly on an understanding of the underlying hardware. This is especially the case in scenarios like those involving embarrassingly parallel processing, which at first glance …read more #hacking #projects image
Dad Makes Kid’s Balance Bike Into Electric Snow Trike Like a Boss The balance bikes toddlers are rocking these days look like great fun, but not so great in the snow. Rather than see his kid’s favourite toy relegated to shed until …read more #hacking #projects image
A New Life For An Old Amplifier An audio amplifier was once a fairly simple analogue device, but in recent decades a typical home entertainment amplifier will have expanded to include many digital functions. When these break …read more #hacking #projects image
FLOSS Weekly Episode 860: Elixir Origin Story This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it’s a functional language with …read more #hacking #projects image
Genetic Therapy Aims To Bring Hearing To Those Born Deaf For those born with certain types of congenital deafness, the cochlear implant has been a positive and enabling technology. It uses electronics to step in as a replacement for the …read more #hacking #projects image
ESP32-P4 Powers Retro Handheld after a Transplant The ESP32-P4 is the new hotness on the microcontroller market. With RISC-V architecture and two cores running 400 MHz, to ears of a certain vintage it sounds more like the …read more #hacking #projects image
Clone Wars: IBM Edition If you search the Internet for “Clone Wars,” you’ll get a lot of Star Wars-related pages. But the original Clone Wars took place a long time ago in a galaxy …read more #hacking #projects image
Pushing China’s EAST Tokamak Past the Greenwald Density Limit Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density, but increasing said density is tricky, as beyond a certain point the …read more #hacking #projects image