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Ever since the first Supercon, people have submitted talk proposals at the very last minute, and some even in the minutes after the last minute. We know how it is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/supercon-call-for-proposals-extended-july-16th/)
Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool hardware hacks. We don’t get to see many mechanical reverse-engineering efforts, though, which …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/hackable-ham-radio-gives-up-its-mechanical-secrets/)
Building A Cassette Deck Controller To Save a Locked Out Car Stereo
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/building-a-cassette-deck-controller-to-save-a-locked-out-car-stereo/
Cars have had DRM-like measures for longer than you might think. Go back to the 1990s, and coded cassette decks were a common way to stop thieves being able to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/building-a-cassette-deck-controller-to-save-a-locked-out-car-stereo/)
Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/looking-at-standard-cell-design-in-the-pentium-processor/)
Control flow merges can create multiple loop entry
edges (Credit: Martin Brand, et al., SOAP 2024)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/control_flow_merges_figure_3_martin_brand_et_al_2024.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/control_flow_merges_figure_3_martin_brand_et_al_2024.jpg?w=800">When thinking about loops in programming languages, they often get simplified down to a conditions section and a body, but this belies the dizzying complexity that emerges when considering loop …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/misconceptions-about-loops-or-static-code-analysis-is-hard/)
Today’s memory sticks have hundreds of pins and many gigabytes of RAM on board. Decades ago, though, the humble 30-pin SIMM was the state of the art where memory was …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/build-your-own-16-mb-30-pin-simms-for-vintage-pcs/)