Hmm, I haven’t spotted such a thing yet, so probably not?

Our purple narrowboat moored up in Salthouse Dock

And we’re in. Coming through Albert Dock is pretty cool!

About to head down into the old Liverpool docks, and a lovely sunny day for it!

Want to get your hands on a real lithography photomask? How about some silicon wafers?

Enter our demoscene competition for a chance to win one!

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No, plenty of it right now - though when we visited (not by boat) last August it was completely empty.

Progress has not been as bad as I feared, first 5 locks have been alright. 4 to go!

Water coming over the top of the top lock gates means it’s very hard to get the lock empty enough to open the gates so the boat to come out the other end. This is going to be a “fun” morning…

Looking back from our boat at the bottom lock of Marple flight

Our purple narrowboat in the foreground/left, the edge of the aqueduct we’re on, and an impressive viaduct behind.

No problems, and it was handy to have some help from the volunteer lock keepers!

Now onwards, towards Manchester!

Heading down Marple Top Lock, it’s a deep one!

We’ve planned to use this flight a few times but it’s always been closed. Hopefully all will go well today!

Bad Apple!! but it's running on TIS-100 YouTube video by Nina Satragno

I rendered Bad Apple!! on TIS-100.

This was a fun long weekend project, and I got to learn about some of the internals of one of my favourite puzzle games!

#zachtronics #badapple #touhou
youtu.be/N3JwU-Kvqpo

Jeri in front of a pinball machine pointing to a resistor on her cool tshirt

Sprite wearing 'I are a programmer' tshirt

Will with his feet up in front a pair of monitors showing hello world from his FPGA graphics system

Meet the awesome judges of our #ASIC demoscene competition: @jeriellsworth.bsky.social, @willflux.bsky.social and Sprite_tm!

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#opensource #ASIC #competition

Wait. You can just say "we might infringe on your rights" in your Terms Of Service?

I'm considering moving my git repos to #Codeberg (from GitHub). If you have open source projects on Codeberg, I'd be interested to learn from your experience. I host my own web sites, so it's only the core git stuff I need to worry about. 🙏

Announcing the second Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition!

Free silicon space for all entrants!

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Looking Up: with Dr Lucy Rogers MBE - The Gregson Join us for an engaging 75-minute session with Dr Lucy ...

This Wednesday 25 March 7pm I'm giving a free talk at the Gregson, Lancaster. All welcome.

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After six years I'm leaving Tom's Hardware and joining Pimoroni — Back to my maker roots! Shiver me timbers!!! After nearly six years at Tom's Hardware I am heading off for new adventures! The good ship Pimoroni, purveyors of maker toys, tools and what nots has added me to its…

Shiver me timbers!!!
After nearly six years at Tom's Hardware I am heading off for new horizons!
Pimoroni, purveyors of maker toys, tools and kits has added me to its crew!
From April 1st I will be Pimoroni's Content Editor. Creating content to inpsire everyone to be a maker!
youtu.be/q1FYxBLDyQk

Join us tomorrow night as we play live on the Folk on Foot YouTube channel along with all the other nominees in the Folk Album of the Year award.

Show starts at 7pm

okay awesome! videos now no longer do the horrible dynamic audio adjustment, which should make music and other videos with dynamic ranges much more pleasant. I also fixed quiet videos getting boosted to oblivion

enjoy this peaceful and quiet bird video!

Awesome! Occasionally forgetting to remove audio from videos of me doing something with electronics and ending up with massively amplified background noise was a pain.

Agree with this, we should have built more nuclear over the last couple of decades, but we shouldn’t start new decade+ long nuclear projects now - focus on developing storage so renewables can be relied on makes more sense to me.

Dabao Evaluation Board for Baochip-1x A powerful new RISC-V microcontroller with mostly open RTL

Interested in trying out a Baochip-1x? The 'dabao' evaluation board is now taking pre-orders on Crowd Supply: www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao

Yeah that makes sense!

I’m just doing these things for fun at the moment, so everything is open so people can make their own if they want (and I don’t really want to get into the logistics of selling stuff)

I was planning on making something with HDMI shaped DVI output using RP2350, but using an FPGA for more flexible composition is interesting. Will your gateware be open source?

That looks great! If there was an option to interface at 3v3 it would be usable, but ideally I’d want 16-bit data and more address bits.

Mike Bell (@rebelmike@hachyderm.io) Attached: 1 image I2C now works! I've been quickly testing with the Pimoroni sensor stick that came with the Tufty. It was straightforward to port the Pico BMP280 example to work with RV4028, and I...

I'm mostly posting about RV4028 on Fedi, if you want to follow in more detail: hachyderm.io/@rebelmike/1...

My RV4028 computer is getting to the point where video output would be nice. Maybe I can rig up PicoTerm on the VGA demo board...

Anyway - for now I'm controlling the on board LEDs with a Pimoroni QwST Pad!

I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.

The tech oligarchs pushing AI do not care if you can afford a computer, because they do not truly love the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd...

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

A square PCB labelled RV4028 RISC-V Hackable Computer There’s 5 80 pin 2mm pitch sockets on it , a USB port at the top, and WS2812 LEDs down the right hand side (one next to each socket). There’s a logo of a small podgy dragon with tiny wings is in the top right corner, next to the USB socket

RV4028 IO module in the back slot of the backplane.

The RV4028 computer with IO, RAM and CPU modules populated

I got the boards for my RISC-V computer fabricated. I've been documenting the bringup over on Fedi, but the conclusion is - it works!

The thread here has lots more details: hachyderm.io/@rebelmike/1...

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston

“Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

Looking forward to this tonight - there are some really cool designs on TT08!