Originally published in 2017. PDP-1 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory As you might have gathered from my projects, I am a bit of computer and electronics history buff. I’m old enough to actually remember using an 8-bit Heathkit H-89 computer...
In another page, I described my adventures converting an Ubuntu DEB package to an RPM package. This provided me with a native toolchain for my Linux workstation. I wished though that there was a solution that would allow far more Linux users, no matter...
Mimas A7 - Artix 7 FPGA Development BoardAvailability of sufficient data storage is a very important factor when selecting an FPGA development board. Various boards offer different memory options such as SRAM, QDR, SDRAM, FLASH etc. DDR SDRAM is most...
Last weekend I thought quite a way ahead, in terms of where the architecture needs to end up, and wrote up the basic requirements I have for this project, which you can find in the project's Details section.There are still a lot of open questions about...
Friday, 13:25, 02/12/2022 - Yes, "02/12", it took my two days to finish this Project Log since I had to rewrite it time and time again.At first I thought this was a waste of time, but after doing this, I feel like I have a better idea...
DC28 AND!XOR BENDERPISS CTF Stats 132 Players on the Scoreboard / 5 Fake Hacked Players / 60 Flags Possible 21 Main Challenges 3 Bonus Challenges 36 Easter Eggs Concept Our CTF has never been about cutthroat competition, its about exploration,...
THE DAY AFTER......As we walk casually to the workshop, and discuss the various quad copter projects, and my old Traxxas RC truck which I have up the bench to repair it's glow engine and trying to find other radioactive sources to test geiger counters...
One of the most demanding applications for fast arithmetic is digital flitering. Atmel application note AVR201 shows how to use the hardware multiplier to make a multiply-and-accumulate operation (MAC). The MAC is the basis for computing the sum of terms...
An Iconic Computer & its Voice SynthesizerUpdates: 2021/10: Talker/80 in Germany! Great video by "The Homecomputerguy" who took his Talker/80 to the "Classic Computing 2021" fair in Vöhringen! Thanks for the great video and for demoing Talker/80!...
So I've recently got a fully electrically and mechanically complete CAD model of Tetrinsic and was, once again, doing some research for Tetent, mainly because I don't like how this featureless flat face looks: It turns out that the eteeController...