1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (35+ words) Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. The Jupiter Ace springs immediately......

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (236+ words) Hackaday There are plenty of ways to capture 3D images or simulations of such if you know what you’re doing with camera hardware and fancy mathematics However, a little more unusual is the idea of capturing a 3D image while using…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (302+ words) Hackaday This is going to be a very personal question, because when you’re talking cloud vs local anything, it comes down to this: how much are you willing to pay for independence? The local option might save you long…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (34+ words) The Philips PM5139 is not famous. It won no great victories on the battlefield, nor was instrumental in changing the political landscape. It was just a useful function generator that you might find on......

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (30+ words) The progression of the web browser from a tool for simple static information browsing into a do-everything computing environment has been inexorable, with package after package making the jump. Today......

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (35+ words) The NEC V20 is an Intel 8088-compatible processor that features the same use of microcode, though with its own characteristics. This makes it important to use this same microcode if your goal is to cr......

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (37+ words) Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research's GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it's the DOS version......

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (32+ words) [lcamtuf] has an in-depth look at the concept of negative resistance that goes somewhat further than one might expect. Normally, as voltage across a resistance increases so too does the current. Negat......

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (156+ words) Hackaday Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying — especially if it is challenging His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes Ok, that didn’t work out, but would you believe 1024 bytes of source…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (264+ words) Hackaday Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning Now that it’s the 21st century, we’ve gotten used to being…...