by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 26, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
Working with graphics on microcontrollers has always meant focusing on making the most of limited resources. Particularly in the 8-bit era, all manner of tricks were used to get low-performance chips to achieve feats beyond their lowly station. However, these days,...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 25, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
Schlieren imaging is a technique for viewing the density of transparent fluids using a camera and some clever optical setups. Density of a fluid like air might change based on the composition of the air itself with various gasses, or it may vary as a result of a sound...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 23, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
Apple, the world’s first trillion-dollar company — give or take a trillion — has built a bit of libertarian cachet by famously refusing to build backdoors into their phones, despite the entreaties of the federal government. So it came as a bit of a surprise when we...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 22, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what then are we to make of something that shares only a few of the original’s design elements, operates in a completely different way, and has been scaled down to a fifth its size? Still seems like flattery to us....
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 21, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Tom Nardi chew the beef tallow as they take a tour through some of the best and most interesting articles from the past week, from kicking off another round of the popular Circuit Sculpture contest to building artisan coffee makers....
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 20, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
If you wanted me to demo CP/M running on an emulated Altair 8800, I’d pull out a tiny board from my pocket. You might wonder how I wound up with an Altair 8800 that runs CP/M (even WordStar), that fits in your pocket and cost less than $10. Turns out it’s a story that...
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