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Lily, whom despite raising millions in dollars to build their highly anticipated consumer drone, have just filed for bankrupcy. Throughout 2015 and 2016, Lily raised over $35 million in pre-sales and even secured $15 million in investment via equity organisations. Their downfall, predicted by DroningON three days…
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Thanks to NVIDIA’s early access program, we are thrilled to get our hands on the NVIDIA DGX™ Spark. It’s quite an unconventional system, as NVIDIA rarely releases compact, all-in-one machines that bring supercomputing-class performance to a desktop workstation form factor.
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Why do the 8-bit designs of the 1970s still generate so much interest?
How to create 1.7-Mbyte MDF floppies with GRDuw Windows shareware or Linux. Now add DNS server and full DHCP to floppy-bootable Linux.
Blog about VHDL projects for FPGA. FPGA tutorials. FPGA free books.
A tabletop LED display for quiet data
While not an absolute requirement for modern graphics card support on Linux, Resizeable BAR support makes GPUs go faster, by allowing GPUs to throw data back and forth on the PCIe bus in chunks larger than 256 MB. In January, I opened an issue in the Raspberry Pi Linux repo, Resizable BAR support on Pi 5. Unlike most…
A closer look at op-amp feedback loops and the stability criteria for circuits that use them.
Raspberry Pi is at the heart of this AI-powered, automated sorting machine that's capable of recognising and sorting any LEGO brick.
We are restoring a vintage 1 computer that CuriousMarc recently obtained. Analog computers were formerly popular for fast scientific compu...
So you've got your hands on a late 1980s Minitel 1B (or something slightly later) and then you realize that the entire Minitel network shut ...
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ShmooCon was, once again, a fantastic experience this year. One of many highlights of this year's event for me was hacking on some radio d...
Background Back in April, the hardware news site cnx-software featured a very nice new small Linux board called Breadbee , that was design...
VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.
When we launched the “$99 Parallella project” on Kickstarter in 2012 , the goal was to “democratize access to supercomputing”. With a $99 price point, we knew that we would not make a profit, but we figured the value of reaching the whole world with our technology was enough of a reward for Adapteva as a company. With…
One of the more common arguments you hear in contemporary computer security circles is about hardware trust and embedded controllers. Technologies like Intel ME, the ARM Secure Element, TPMs, etc, remind us that the architecture of the modern computer is complex and not entirely under our control. A typical modern…
Arduino 1.0 is now available. Read about the milestone release of the Arduino software and download it for your computer.
Published: 01-08-2026 20:08 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
The groundbreaking new iPad Pro features a stunningly thin and light design, taking portability and performance to the next level.
Apple today announced Apple Watch Ultra, which brings a new bold design and a wide range of features for endurance, exploration, and adventure.
In November 1996, Apple released the Power Macintosh 4400 with a starting price of $1,725. Also sold as the Power Macintosh 7220, it’d be easy to write this machine off as just another grain of sand on the beige beach that was Apple’s product line in the 1990s. I mean, just look at this thing, pictured here with an…
The Rimac Nevera has set a top speed of 412kph (258mph), making it the fastest electric production car in the world.
