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In 2014 I went to the open house event that NASA Ames had in honor of their 75th anniversary. They had the giant 80 by 120 foot wind tunnel open for viewing from the outside and I …

Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible. It should be aware that using a Pico W as a transparent ethernet bridge has been done several times over in open source projects, fo…

I use acme.sh for certs on my personal server and was a little surprised when it started using ZeroSSL by default. Despite being more "corporate" I decided to roll with it and it's…

They've already released the ESP32-S31-WROOM-3 and two development boards based on it: the ESP32-S31-Function-CoreBoard-1 and ESP32-S31-Korvo-1. All are available on Espressif's of…

From the ESP32-S31 datasheet: "Single-precision floating-point unit (FPU) per core"

Atom Computing | Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer, Software Engineering Manager | Boulder, CO (Hybrid) | Full-time Atom Computi…

Stumbling on the Usborne "Introduction to Computer Programming - Basic for Beginners" book in the library bookmobile that came to my school was probably the first domino that set o…

Atom Computing | Senior Infrastructure Engineer + Principal Software Engineer + Software Engineering Manager | Boulder, CO (Hybrid) | Full-time Atom Computing is developing large-s…

I fail to see what company this is advertising?

I had a Cyrix 6x86 when Quake first came out. My disappointment at how poorly Quake ran on it was significant, especially because pretty much every other game at the time ran well …

Thank you - you're the first one who suggested that implementing GUS on a Pico w/ PSRAM was a possibility. :)

The VST itself is $20 (to the end user). The Enigma Protector is the software that costs $200 (to the developer).

BTW I'm pretty well versed in getting laser cut and bent sheet metal made, both in China and via US-based providers like SendCutSend - my PicoIDE project uses a metal bracket. In f…

Thanks. Fixed!

The repo will be made public when the hardware is launched. Should be a few weeks.

A stamped steel plate is not possible at my planned price point. But one thing I will note is that this 3D printed front panel is only a prototype.

The price will definitely be lower, and another difference is that PicoIDE will be entirely open firmware and hardware, while ZuluIDE is not.

Currently, it implements the ATAPI READ SUB-CHANNEL command and fully supports the current position data format code. Other format codes like ISRC and UPC currently return dummy da…

Fun seeing this posted - I'm the creator of the project. While it's meant to be a generic IDE/ATAPI emulator the two main use cases I envisioned for the project are in the area of …

Outside of the US, they have symbols: ⇥ intead of "tab", ⇪ instead of "caps lock", ⏎ instead of "return", etc.

Did you actually read the article? Doesn't seem like it, the author says he literally talked to Peri in it.

That's a very uncharitable way to put things. Since my original posts it looks like things have cooled and the worst of the tariffs have been walked back, but at the sky-high tarif…

I switched to Aisler who are in Germany. They're certainly more expensive than China but still way less than quick turn options in the US. There will still be tariffs but they won'…

As a maker of open source hardware, I and others in the US selling my projects stocked up before the de minimis threshold was eliminated on May 2. We're not increasing our prices u…

That's what I always assumed it was, too.