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#FootpathFriday with everyone's favorite. . . Stairs!
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For a long time I wanted to try and make some blinking lights.
"What's so special about that?" I hear you say. Well, you see - real server racks or nuclear power plant control consoles don't blink completely randomly. There's intricate relationships between individual lights, rows of lights, entire racks... and the time factor.
I have created a texture storing 256 different patters. Special UV layout + vertex colors + of course a special shader and we can have this:
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L'emozione di essere italiani, con i treni sempre in perenne ritardo...
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@grabbi_it tutti i discorsi moralistici sono capziosi, perché partono dalle intime convinzioni di chi giudica e le applicano a chi è giudicato. Io ad esempio non vedo ad esempio un "chiaro beneficio" nel lasciare alle aziende e alle masse di sprovveduti l'utilizzo di tecnologie che non puoi cancellare dall'esistenza umana, preferisco gli utilizzi liberi e consapevoli orientati al bene comune. Ma non pretendo che la mia convizione sia obbligatoria per altri e non la uso come metro di giudizio.
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The boots on the ground licker
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- Chi t'ha acciso?!
- Le accise
- Chi hanno acciso?
- Me m'hanno accise!
- Ma te o loro?Odissea
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Ancienne #illustration improvisée fait en 2013 sur #Artrage. Une #elfe #bleue qui me fait penser à Ily.
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My youngest dog likes to be carried around like a little baby. I accidentally trained him that certain behaviors lead to me picking him up and bringing him inside...so, now he does one or more of those things every day so I'll pick him up. He weighs 80 pounds.
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Reading the World’s Smallest Hard Drive
You have a tiny twenty-year-old hard drive with a weird interface. How do you read it? If you’re [Will Whang], by reverse engineering, and building an interface board.
In many of our portable, mobile, and desktop computers, we’re used to solid-state storage. It’s fast and low power, and current supply-chain price hikes notwithstanding, affordable in the grand scheme of things. It wasn’t always this way though, a couple of decades ago a large flash drive was prohibitively expensive. Hard drive manufacturers did their best to fill the gap with tiny spinning-rust storage devices which led to the smallest of them all: the Toshiba MK4001MTD. It crammed 4 GB onto a 0.85″ platter, and could be found in a few devices such as high-end Nokia phones.
Breaking out the Nokia’s hard drive interface.
The drive’s connector is a pattern of pads on a flexible PCB, one he couldn’t help noticing had a striking resemblance to an obscure SD card variant. Hooking it up to an SD reader didn’t work unfortunately, so a battered Nokia was called into service. It was found to be using something electrically similar to the SD cards, but with the ATA protocol familiar from the world of full-size hard drives.The interface uses the PIO capability of the RP2040, and the board makes a tidy peripheral in itself. We’re guessing not many of you have one of these drives, but perhaps if you do, those early 2000s phone pics aren’t lost for good after all.
These drives are rare enough that this is the first time we’ve featured one here at Hackaday, but we’ve certainly ventured into hard drive technology before.
