Share this: Tiny device could replace expensive lab-scale equipment for many applications. Spectrometers — devices that distinguish different wavelengths of light and are used to determine t... Read more
Share this:Ken Shirriff has a detailed write-up about the multi-level ROM in Intel’s 8087 floating point chip: The 8087 chip provided fast floating point arithmetic for the original IBM PC a... Read more
Share this: Though many alternatives are available, the Raspberry Pi computer boards are probably the most well known and widely used in the maker community. But they don’t suit every... Read more
Share this: AMD has combined ARM and x86 processors in its latest mobile accelerated processing units (APUs). This is AMD’s first implementation of ARM-based technology into processors desig... Read more
Share this:In this entry I will demonstrate how to interface the MCP3008; an SPI-based analog to digital converter (ADC) integrated chip, to the Raspberry Pi. This enables the Raspberry Pi... Read more
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