I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- Using my super scientific method of just placing parts on the PCB to inventory I see that I have enough of the expensive parts to build 3 nodes of my 6502 cluster to start. Happy Wednesday!
- Always impressed by Mouser’s packing of sensitive components.
- Vintage computer commercial for today
- Brush clearing day 2. Colorful PPE gives my location away.
- Finally. A cheap and small FPGA dev board with more than enough easy to access IO pins. Open source tool chain is a must for me. I’m gonna need a few more of these ;)
- Interesting read this morning
- Out of all of the dystopian futures in Science Fiction, it's disappointing that the most accurate one was Wall-E.
- I bought a single 2SC1959 transistor and don’t remember why. Extra weird because I keep pretty good notes about my 57 ongoing projects. Hmm
- Not by AI
- 8 bit clusters
- Current Mood
- Ahh, that's better. The correct position of this toggle for this guy is off. I'll do my own summaries thank you.
- Several more modern “advanced” calculators are controversial
- Driving clocks with FPGAs
- Happy Pi Day! Another year of 6502 machines verifying the digits. #commodore
- New to me TI-92. I did not realize just how huge these things are.
- Just looking over the Minnesota fishing regulations. I feel like I've missed a memo.
- If I view this Commodore PET picture on a C64, does that break the space-time continuum? The picture itself represents the very moment computing peaked. Long slide into mediocre since then. Happy Friday!
- Canadian Bacon
- The PET Diagnostic boards designed by Sven Peterson arrived and I just realized I have the BOM loaded in a shopping cart but never actually pressed “submit order”. This is what happens when you have too many simultaneous projects.