The Kilopixel Display Hackaday Article

The Kilopixel Display

Want to help build a crowdsourced microcontroller?

You're invited to design peripherals (UARTs, timers, synths, etc.) for a @riscv.org.web.brid.gy chip that will be fabbed for real!

Take part for free!

tinytapeout.com/competitions...

The trick with Bay Area speak is it is 1984 Doublespeak.

"Innovation" (Something Andreesen says a lot) - Give me rent checks.

"Disruption" - (Something YCombinator says a lot) - Break the law

The framing is always i.e. good vs evil where they are the heroes, when actually villains.

Picture of the mentioned display running the DOOM game.

Pushed today my patch series to add support for the ST7567 I2C display controller. Another monochrome LCD to use it as a terminal for my Linux embedded boards.

This USB C dock lets you stand your dev board upright, great for charging and reprogramming learn.adafruit.com/usb-c-dock #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/5pE4mzdc1c4

There’s A New Reusable Rocket, And It’s A Honda Hackaday Article

There’s A New Reusable Rocket, And It’s A Honda

As Israel Targets Iran’s Nuclear Program, It Has a Secret One of Its Own Since shortly after it was founded in 1948, Israel has been intent on building a nuclear program to ensure its survival.

The war that Israel launched against Iran targets its nuclear program, which experts say could make an atomic weapon within months. Israel has its own secretive nuclear weapons program, one that it doesn’t publicly acknowledge but that, some experts believe, is also expanding. Here’s what to know.

Meanwhile in Japan, Honda has joined the reusable first stage Launch and Landing fun :)

source: global.honda/en/topics/20...

Funny how you just need to break some angles to turn kitchen environment into a spaceship.

Dick Tracy is 35.
The make up artists did a fantastic job on the outlandish Dick Tracy villains.

Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to.

I'm excited to share my latest @ratatui.rs project! 🎉🥳

🎸 Tuitar — a tiny guitar tuner.

🦀 Powered by embedded Rust & Ratatui (running on ESP32)

🚧 Work-in-progress, building it live: www.youtube.com/@orhundev

⭐ GitHub: github.com/orhun/tuitar

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #esp32 #guitar

Is Ratatui embedded yet? We have some news! 📢🧀

➡️ Read the blog post here: jslazak.com/are-we-embed...

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded

Nintendo Switch 2 Teardown, Let’s A-Go! Hackaday Article

Nintendo Switch 2 Teardown, Let’s A-Go!

Rest in Peace, Bill Atkinson.

Hard to overstate the massive influence Bill's work had over me, and the way we all use computers today.

From his work on the Macintosh, to HyperCard, Bill was a pioneer of merging art & technology.

2009 Sony phone with a transparent screen. We didn’t deserve them.

A photo of a bottom half of a device with a CNC aluminium body, a silicon keypad with the top row of the keys being various shapes with the colors of the rainbow, and a square glass LCD on top. There is also a piece of a lanyard going across the device with the words "Solder Party" and 6 colorful dots in the colors of the rainbow.

Have I posted this yet? Can't remember...

Finally a show about Boolean logic operators

this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion

Ratatui + embedded = 🧀

github.com/j-g00da/mous...

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #esp32 #mousefood #framework #graphics

it just seems super super weird to me that like half the dev community has somehow forgotten the fifty years of R&D spent trying to get a thing that responds at all reasonably to natural language input, or learns practically useful models of complex domains, and how that is now very visibly working.

Oscilloscope displaying a rainbow sinusoid

Pride month means I get to post the gay oscilloscope

‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers Hundreds of activists wearing gas masks took to the streets to call out their government for slashing science funding.

More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets yesterday in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest the collapse of science in the country, which they say was initiated by their government.

https://go.nature.com/43QWX4f

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

DOOMscrolling

screen showing Rogue One movie

Watching Andor season 3 (Rogue One), hands down the best movie from the Star Wars universe

REPAIR THE WORLD

another fantastic BlueSky repair story
#electronics

comparison of different compilation error from 1.0 to 1.80 rust version

Evolution of Rust compiler errors

kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2...

#rustlang