Showing posts with label software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label software. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Computer Science is DOOMED Because Humans are Bad at Programming (Video)

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Wow, this video of Dr. Matt Welsh's presentation to the CS-50 class at Harvard really put the whole AI, large language model into perspe...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Apollo Core Rope Memory -- CuriousMarc Takes it on (video)

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Here is another amazing Apollo video from CuriousMarc (AJ6JV).  Thanks to Bob KD4EBM for alerting me to this.  We have recently been discuss...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Sunburst and Luminary -- A Poem about Transistors and ICs

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  Sunburst and Luminary by Don Eyles has a lot of the kind of color that helps the reader understand what was going on technologically duri...
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Saturday, September 23, 2023

Sunburst and Luminary -- An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles (video)

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Buy the book from the Amazon link on the right side of the page >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
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Saturday, August 19, 2023

More Ancient Technology Keeping Space Missions Alive

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  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230815-the-ancient-tech-keeping-space-missions-alive Three cheers for software.  Really. 
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Another Model Rocket that Lands like SpaceX -- With a Great Description of the Flight Computer, Software, and Design

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Wow, I have to give the devil his due:  this is NOT something that could be accomplished with my beloved discrete (not discreet!) transistor...
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Monday, December 5, 2022

Cargo Culting, Appliances, and Homebrewing

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Hack-A-Day had an interesting short piece on cargo culting and computer coding: https://hackaday.com/2022/12/03/cargo-culting-and-buried-tre...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Model Rocket Lands Like a SpaceX Falcon 9

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I had a blog post about this in 2018:  https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2018/06/rockets-and-microcontroller-videos.html He has finally achie...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Software, Hardware, and Rockets -- T-Zero Systems (videos)

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There is a lot of really cool stuff in these videos.  I am a hardware guy, devoted to HARDWARE Defined Radios.  But these videos are a remin...
Friday, June 17, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #238 -- SolderSmoke Shack South, Cycle 25, Chiquita Banana Radio, RCA, HQ-100, Mate Mighty Midget, Sony SWL RX , Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast #238 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke238.mp3 TRAVELOGUE:   Cathartic decluttering:  Bill preparing for ...
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Saturday, May 28, 2022

"Experimental Methods in RF Design" LADPAC Software Available FREE!

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We've frequently said that is pays to check the W7ZOI web site.  Tony G4WIF did just that and pointed us in that direction, noting that ...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Help! Can You Write the Software to Control the MAX2870 Board?

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  It is not every day that you get the chance to help a master homebrewer like Pete Juliano N6QW.  But today is just such a day.   Pete asks...
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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Roy Lewallen W7EL Gives Us All EZNEC for FREE! Thanks Roy! (Video)

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Free download here:  https://www.eznec.com/ Thanks to Roy Lewallen W7EL for this great gift to the amateur radio community.   And thanks to ...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

An Interview with Paul Lutus (Audio)

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https://corecursive.com/remote-developer/ Thanks to Bob Scott KD4EBM for alerting us to this wonderful interview. 
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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Hack-a-Day: Has DIY become Click-and-Buy?

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https://hackaday.com/2021/12/11/has-diy-become-click-and-buy/ Hack-A-Day today asks about the boundaries between DIY construction and the us...
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Monday, August 2, 2021

Mythbuster Video #12 -- Bandpass Filters

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The really cool part comes at the end when I put the scope probe on the output, then on the input of the bandpass filter.  Exciting stuff my...
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Friday, June 12, 2020

Software for Computer Interface with NanoVNA: NanoVNASaver

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In the UK, "brilliant" is high praise indeed.  So when Tony G4WIF told me that the NanoVNASaver software was brilliant, I too...
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Digital Engineering vs. Analog Engineering

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In  a book  review  Thompson makes this observation about the digital-analog divide:  One difference might be that human beings can d...
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Sunday, July 1, 2018

VU3XVR's Assembly Language 1K AtTiny-Si5351 VFO

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Although Ram VU3XVR's project is in the digital realm, his barebones approach to the bits and bytes is, for me, very appealing. He tak...
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Sunday, June 3, 2018

Understanding Antenna Directivity -- Help from Canada

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I am in the process of repairing my beloved 17 meter fishing-pole Moxon.  It was taken out of service by the last Nor'easter of the wi...
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