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Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such reverse-engineering is …read…
Upgrade your Halloween candy bowl with an Adafruit HalloWing M4! Use the touch pads to change the side lit NeoPixel animations! Customize the animated eyes and trick out your candy bowl to win this year’s Halloween!…
Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are surprisingly vulnerable to a variety of attacks, ranging from simple jamming to …read more
Every magnet has a north and a south pole, but which is which? Sometimes it matters. If a product one builds features a magnetic closure or other part, the polarity …read more
Viewers get a tour of the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans minutes n this video from C.W. Lemoine and 50×50: Science Across America. In this episode, we sit down with NASA Production Manager Chandler…
Flip dot displays are cool, and more people realize that after [mitxela]’s fluid simulation on flip dots installation was on display at EMF 2026. As glorious as the result is, …read more
On the old iPods, generally referred to here in the future as iPod Classic, there lives a tiny, undocumented chip called Mikey. It sits at the headphone output and performs …read more
In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After …read more
As useful as steel and iron are to the modern world, their tendency to rust is a major downside. There’s a spectrum of ways to prevent it, from quickly slapping …read more
LILYGO T-Dongle-C5 is an ESP32-C5 dual-band WiFi 6, BLE, and 802.15.4 USB dongle that builds upon the earlier ESP32-S3-based T-Dongle-S3 board. The new board still features an optional 0.96-inch color display, a microSD…
The introduction of the ATmega32U4 microcontroller, with its integrated USB controller, made a lot of hardware tasks much simpler than they were before. One of the arenas it revolutionized was …read more
