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Winner, Name that Ware February 2026
The Ware for February 2026 is a WITRN C5. Congrats to Tim for guessing it, email me for your prize!
The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky. Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight. But the launch, like much of the flight, was really under the control of four computers in the avionics bays one deck below the crew. A fifth computer stood ready to take over in case of a catastrophic computer malfunction. These computers, Model AP-101B, were part of IBM's System/4 Pi family.
The Space Shuttle AP-101B computer. This unit flew on multiple...Introduction to the PineTime Pro
The PineTime Pro was officially announced at FOSDEM26 on the Pine64 stand. The demo was a bit modest (more on that later on), but we were delighted to showcase the first prototype of the “next generation PineTime” along with a demo running on a development board!
We also mentioned the PineTime Pro...
Bring back MiniDV with this Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT
In my last post, I showed you to use FireWire on a Raspberry Pi with a PCI Express IEEE 1394 adapter. Now I'll show you how I'm using a new FireWire HAT and a PiSugar3 Plus battery to make a portable MRU, or 'Memory Recording Unit', to replace tape in older FireWire/i.Link/DV cameras.
The alternative is an old used MRU like Sony's HVR-MRC1, which runs around $300 on eBay1.
FOOF. Воспроизводим легендарный баг в процессоре Pentium
Приветствую всех!
Думаю, при упоминании знаменитого бага в процессоре Intel Pentium на ум сразу приходит ошибка деления. Но, как оказывается, она была не единственным косяком этих чипов.
Первые «пеньки» имели ещё одну интересную особенность: существовали «роковые» четыре байта, выполнение которых заставляло компьютер зависнуть намертво. Что же это была за ошибка, как она проявлялась и как её воспроизвести? Сейчас и узнаем.
Press F1 to continueРадио почти из ничего. Самодельные радиодетали 1920-х. Конденсаторы
Мы уже припомнили [1], насколько небогато жилось коллегам-любителям на заре радио, и каков облик имели нехитрые рукодельные и даже фабричные радиоприёмники 1920-х — простые детекторные или малоламповые схемы, как правило — для длинных и средних волн. Скудный ассортимент всего из нескольких универсальных триодов, не ломившиеся от радиотоваров полки магазинов — почти все элементы для своих конструкций приходилось изготовлять своими руками, часто начиная от нехитрых материалов — листовых металлов, фольги и проволоки, дощечек, винтов, гвоздей, кое-каких подножных кухонных химикатов и прочей чепухи. Изготовлять в том числе и элементы питания (накальные элементы, анодные батареи), резисторы-конденсаторы, детекторы, выпрямители (в случае наличия осветительной сети), сердечники трансформаторов...
CHERI-Mocha memory-safe compute subsystem is now open
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Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi
After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear.
I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a 'DV' port. I could plug that into an old Mac (like the dual G4 MDD above) with FireWire—or even a modern Mac running macOS < 26, with some dongles—and transfer digital video footage between the camera and an application like Final Cut Pro.
FOSDEM 2026 Update
Hey everyone! So long no talk. It’s been a long time since a proper community update, but rest assured a “full size update” update is coming sometime in April (Charlie the Pinecorn returns!).
We are still planning to migrate to Codeberg...
BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor
BIO is the I/O co-processor in the Baochip-1x, a mostly open source 22nm SoC I helped design. You can read more about the Baochip-1x’s background here, or pick up an evaluation board at Crowd Supply.
In this post, I’ll talk about the origins of the BIO, starting by working through a detailed study of the Raspberry Pi PIO as a reference, before diving into the architecture of the BIO. I’ll then work through three programming examples of the BIO, two in assembly and one in C. If all you’re interested in is how to use the BIO, you can skip the...