Reverse Engineering : Is it legal or is it a grey area? This is the story of how 2 different game companies reverse engineered the Sega Genesis 16bit console and how the courts ruled in favor of clean-room reverse engineering as a legal form of both software and hardware modification.
Month: July 2020
Nintendo Will Reportedly Release A $250 LEGO NES Console Next Month
According to a new report which has surfaced online today, Nintendo is set to release a LEGO version of its classic NES console next month.
A series of images have been shared by Chinese site VJgamer, which claims that the upcoming product includes 1:1 brick replicas of the NES itself, the controller, a cartridge, and even a TV which shows Super Mario Bros. on screen (thanks, VGC).
It’s said that owners will be able to open the NES’ front cover and insert the LEGO cartridge, and that the TV features a crank which can make Mario move from one side of the screen to the other. German publication PromoBricks says that the set will launch for €229 / $250 on 1st August.
Incredible vinyl-like super SSDs could make hard disk drives obsolete
Modern hyperscale datacenters have infinite appetite for storage performance, capacity, and density, which is why multiple new SSD form-factors designed to maximize performance and capacity were introduced in the recent years.
But Kioxia believes that there is a faster and cheaper way to deliver desired solid-state storage solutions to cloud customers: wafer-level SSDs.
With capacities starting at around 50 TBs using current 3D QLC NAND, such devices could offer unbeatable performance.
You Will Never Beat This Sharpshooting Robot at Table Hockey
Over the years we’ve seen quite a few successful attempts to create robotic air hockey opponents, but Andrew Khorkin has dedicated himself to a much harder task. He’s managed to build a robot that can not only play table hockey—a more onerous task than playing air hockey—but one that can slap the puck into the net from almost anywhere on the board with incredible accuracy.
To a human player, air hockey can feel frenetic and chaotic as they try to keep their eyes on that puck zipping back and forth across an air-cushioned table. But the game isn’t terribly hard for a robotic player to master, assuming they’ve got access to a camera sitting above the table. The puck’s movements are relatively predictable as it bounces around, and as long as the robot is able to move its paddle into position fast enough, it will never lose.
Nerdiskerator 3D-Printed Disk Generator Created with Neodymium Magnets and Handmade Coils
This 3D-printed disk generator features a series of hand-wound coils and a pair of stator disks supported by a single ball bearing.
Disk generators are DC electrical generators that produce very high currents at low voltages for any number of applications, including welding, electrolysis, and, most recently, rail guns. Self-proclaimed full-time nerd and project maker Fab designed the Nerdiskerator (NERdiys DISK genERATOR) for his WinDIY (mostly 3D printed) HAWT Wind Turbine, which autonomously adapts to current wind conditions for generating wind power.
Building a TRUE 4k home cinema projector (it’s awesome)
Despite being homemade, this DIY projector packs a punch!
Super scale active suspension, Arduino powered, 3D printed, RC drift, Oldsmobile Dynamic 88
Add this active suspension system to your build with the universal suspension kit from www.superscale2k20.com
This is for people that want to see more of the project in action. A short description of the build and some photos here: www.superscale2020.blogspot.com
ODROID H2+ Emulation Test – New X86 Single Board Computer
In this video, we test out the emulation performance of the all-new ODROID H2+ Powered by the Intel J4115 CPU and backed by built-in Intel UHD Graphics this little board actually has some potential as a Linux PC or A Windows 10 machine. IN this video we test out some Dreamcast, PSP, Sega Saturn, Gamecube,3DS, and even PS2 on this tiny PC.
LoRa Mesh Communication without Infrastructure: The Meshtastic Project (ESP32, BLE, GPS)
Cool projects are rare. Here I found one I want to show to you. An undercover personal communicator. It includes a lot of new technologies: ESP32, Smartphones, LoRa, BLE, GPS, Mesh, and as you see, 3D printing. And it solves a problem which could be seen as a human right: Personal SMS style communication everywhere in the world, without the need for any infrastructure, and without mass surveillance. In addition, it shows the location of all your friends in your group on a map on your Smartphone. Everything open source, of course. How cool is that? Even “Sexycyborg” Naomi Wu likes it.