A Tiny Chip That Turns S/PDIF Into I2S With No Microcontroller in Sight
Quick primer if you haven’t run into TinyTapeout before: it’s a project that lets individuals submit small custom digital (and…
One Tile, Three Post-Quantum Crypto Standards: A TinyTapeout NTT Butterfly Unit
TinyTapeout is an open silicon shuttle project: anyone can design a small digital or analog chip, usually in Verilog or…
TinyTapeout Recreates the Yamaha YM2413 FM Synth Chip in Real Silicon
I spend most of my week staring at web APIs and container orchestration, so I go looking for excuses to…
Shopify’s Events API Wants to Replace Webhooks. Here’s What That Actually Means for Your App
Shopify quietly shipped something in July that I think matters more than most of the headline features from their DotDev…
A Software 3D Rasterizer for ESP32 Class Microcontrollers
I keep a mental list of projects that make me stop scrolling. Jet, a project from developer CubeCoders, made the…
Rebuilding a Discontinued Jaguar XJ220 Diagnostic Tool from Captured Traffic
Some hardware reverse engineering stories are about clever exploits. This one is about a much smaller, quieter problem: keeping a…
Running Linux 6.11 on an ESP32-S3: Cool Hack, but why?
I saw this one on Hackaday and had to read it twice. Someone got mainline-ish Linux, kernel 6.11, booting on…
Shopify Finally Lets Variants Have More Than One Barcode. Here’s the Catch.
Buried in the September 8 entry of the Shopify developer changelog is a change I think a lot of app…
Someone Built Every ZX81 Expansion You Wished You Had in 1981
The Sinclair ZX81 was built to hit a price point, not a spec sheet. 1K of RAM, a membrane keyboard,…