effluvia of a scattered mind

 A few days ago I held a workshop on do-it-yourself (aka cheap) surface mount electronics techniques at a Boston artspace/hackerspace calle...

Recreational Software Designs GameMaker product was a program that ran on the IBM PC machines around 1991-1995, sold in the USA, UK and Kore...

Its a royal PITA to specify the pinout of a 144 pin part! So there is no point to doing this more than once -- across the entire internet. ...

For some reason, Lattice provides its new Diamond GUI for the second most popular Linux distribution instead of Ubuntu, the most popular di...

After a quite a bit of comparative evaluation I chose the Lattice XP2 FPGA and the Brevia demo board for a bit of hardware hacking. (In sh...

I've recently been working on a simple PSOC (www.cypress.com/psoc) project using the CY8C64315 USB chip and can't help but compare i...

There is an interesting read about an "open hardware" license here: http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html But I am interested in something ...

I just finished reading "Den of Thieves" by James Stewart which is about the junk bond scandal that hit wall street in the '8...

What is PWM? PWM (pulse width modulation) is the art of faking a particular voltage by rapidly moving between 2 other voltages. For exampl...

Firefox has a cool extension called pyxpcomext that sticks a Python interpreter inside your browser! But as is it is pretty hard to use unl...