We love hearing about a good experiment, and here’s a pretty neat one: researchers used a VR headset, an off-the-shelf VR360 camera, and some custom software to glue them together. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/giving-people-an-owl-like-visual-field-via-vr-feels-surprisingly-natural/)

Show Us Your Minimalist Games, and Win
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/show-us-your-minimalist-games-and-win/

Sometimes the tightest constraints inspire the highest creativity. The 2024 Tiny Games Challenge invites you to have the most fun with the most minimal setup. Whether that’s tiny size, tiny …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/show-us-your-minimalist-games-and-win/)

CUDA, But Make It AMD
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/cuda-but-make-it-amd/

Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA, is a software platform for doing big parallel calculation tasks on NVIDIA GPUs. It’s been a big part of the push to use GPUs …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/cuda-but-make-it-amd/)

Playing Rock, Paper Scissors With A Time of Flight Sensor
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/playing-rock-paper-scissors-with-a-time-of-flight-sensor/

You can do all kinds of wonderful things with cameras and image recognition. However, sometimes spatial data is useful, too. As [madmcu] demonstrates, you can use depth data from a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/playing-rock-paper-scissors-with-a-time-of-flight-sensor/)

DME with a Twist of LimeSDR
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/dme-with-a-twist-of-limesdr/

Navigating aircraft today isn’t like the old days. No more arrows painted on a barn roof or rotating airway beacons. Now, there are a host of radio navigation aids. GPS, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/dme-with-a-twist-of-limesdr/)

Remembering Seymour Cray
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/remembering-seymour-cray/

If you think of supercomputers, it is hard not to think of Seymour Cray. He built giant computers at Control Data Corporation and went on to build the famous Cray …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/remembering-seymour-cray/)

Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/seiko-had-a-smartwatch-in-1984/

You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you might think back to those fancy Timex models with the datalink thing going on in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/seiko-had-a-smartwatch-in-1984/)

A Look at the DEC VT220, A Proper Serial Terminal
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/17/a-look-at-the-dec-vt220-a-proper-serial-terminal/