Category: Electronics
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Good Morning, Ataru
In the beginning… there was dust. Apes. Magnificent, wretched apes. Screaming at bones. At each other. At the void itself. Then, it appears. Silent. Black. Incomprehensible. A rectangle so perfect it could only be wrong. It does not speak. It does not need to. The apes touch it. And something……
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Thus Spake Ataru
When I showed Ataru playing At Doom’s Gate to my wife, she thought I had built some sort of advanced ultrasonic pest repellent. I died a little inside. Apparently, in her hierarchy of priorities, preventing neighbourhood dogs from pooping in front of our house ranks slightly above coaxing a custom-built…
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Ataru (Reboot)
A few years ago, in the middle of a fairly severe burnout, I tried to motivate myself the way a sensible adult would: by living on YouTube. I had caught the BenEater bug and decided that what I really needed in my life was a breadboard Z80 computer. It worked.…
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Legend of ESPer Tetris
Sometimes you stare at the mountain of dev boards on your desk and realise that none of them actually play Tetris. This is how bad ideas are born. I could have grabbed a phone, installed one of the thousand clones, and moved on with my life. Or pulled out my…
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Ataru
A couple of months back, I was involved in an embedded systems project for the automotive industry (renowned supercar manufacturer); I was tasked with porting and optimising a proof-of-concept imaging system to a prototype board based on the SAMA5D2. All in a day’s work as they say: preparing a customised…