We’ve enjoyed several videos from [Chornobyl Family] about the computers that controlled the ill-fated nuclear reactor in Chornobyl (or Chernobyl, as it was spelled at the time of the accident). This time (see the video below) they are looking at a high-speed data storage device. You don’t normally think of high-speed and paper tape as going […]
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The internet as we knew it, a few years back, was being run by humans; the majority of everything that happens over the internet – the messages, the data, the communication was between people. But this is changing gradually; a new category of devices that do not have any communication between humans is beginning to
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This Arduino sketch exercises the standard hardware of the CKS-1-Shield board. It provides a console interface for reading inputs and triggering outputs, and a set of asynchronous state machines for generating test motions. Console Interface static void parse_user_input(int argc, char *argv[]) Process an input message tokenized from a line of console input. New commands may be defined by
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Music was created by humans, but often we find ourselves creating performances with machines. [Alana Balagot] and [Federico Tobon] did just that, constructing the stunning 4 Muses musical sculpture with their combined talents. 4 Muses is made up of four individual instruments, under the command of a single keyboard controller. The keyboard can be used to
MECHANICAL MUSICAL SCULPTURE RECALLS THE FOUR MUSES Continue Reading
congatec – a leading vendor of standardized and customized embedded computer boards and modules – today announced 10 new COM Express Type 6 modules featuring the best and latest Intel® embedded processor technology. The four Intel® Xeon®, three Intel® Core™, two Intel® Celeron® and one Intel® Pentium® processors are all based on the same Intel microarchitecture (codenamed Coffee Lake H). This enables congatec to provide all 10 new processors on one
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Introduction There are probably over one-hundred Arduino based plotting machines on the internet with instructions available on how to make them. What makes this one unique (as far as I know), is the inbuilt camera and screen. Other plotters must be connected to a computer. This one works completely independently. The 20fps video shown on
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Useless machines are generally built as a fun pastime, as they do nothing of value by their very definition. The most popular type generally involves a self-cancelling switch. However, there’s plenty of other useless machines to build, and we think [Jeffery’s] build is particularly creative. The build consists of an XY gantry that moves a standard
MOUSE-CONTROLLED MOUSE CONTROLLER IS SILLY, BUT COULD BE USEFUL Continue Reading
Nvidia, is one of those companies that never ceases to amaze me. I have to say that they have technically monopolized the GPU ecosystem and now Nvidia is gaining (if not already) for a new crown – AI on the Edge. AI in the cloud has been the buzz ever since, enabling numerous application to
Nvidia Unveils The New AI Brain For Machines and a Cheaper Jetson TX2 Continue Reading
A new open source micro python powered machine vision camera called the openMV H7, is the new tool for developers and hobbyists looking to create machine vision projects. The new machine vision camera has been specifically designed for low power real time applications. The board is built around a 32-bit ST Microelectronics STM32H743 VI ARM Cortex-M7 processor, with
There are many venerable soundchips in the chiptune pantheon, of which the AY-3-8910 is perhaps one of the lesser known. Having not served on active duty for Nintendo or Commodore it’s somewhat unloved in the USA, but it made its name in a variety of arcade and pinball machines and has quite a European following
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