Finally, the ridiculously talented @gloriouscow has decided making one of the, if not *the*, most accurate IBM PC emulators around isn't enough - and is now working on CC0-licensed reference book going into component-by-component detail of exactly how the IBM PC and later PC XT work.

https://www.hackster.io/news/martypc-creator-daniel-balsom-begins-a-mammoth-undertaking-writing-the-pc-emulation-book-9da02298ae3e

#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #Emulation #News #Technology #Hackster

Finally, the ridiculously talented @gloriouscow has decided making one of the, if not *the*, most accurate IBM PC emulators around isn't enough - and is now working on CC0-licensed reference book going into component-by-component detail of exactly how the IBM PC and later PC XT work.

https://www.hackster.io/news/martypc-creator-daniel-balsom-begins-a-mammoth-undertaking-writing-the-pc-emulation-book-9da02298ae3e

#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #Emulation #News #Technology #Hackster

Science next, and a fascinating project which appears to deliver a big boost to #mindfulness... by putting microphones near your hands and feeding amplified audio into your ears.

https://www.hackster.io/news/this-simple-audio-augmentation-system-enhances-mindfulness-focus-say-researchers-e7adbe53ebfb

#Technology #Wearables #Science #News #Hackster

And Olimex has launched yet another open hardware development board, this time based on the Espressif ESP32-C6 and packing Wi-Fi, BLE,, and IEEE 802.15.4 radios plus 18 GPIOs into a compact breadboard-friendly format - and there's even support for an optional battery!

https://www.hackster.io/news/olimex-s-new-mod-esp32-c6-devkit-lipo-is-a-breadboard-friendly-iot-gadget-with-battery-backed-ups-c5913ea50c71

#Technology #Microcontroller #IOT #OpenHardware #DevelopmentBoard #News #Hackster

Toradex has announced new ultra-tiny computers-on-modules, available in solder-down or replaceable board-to-board variants - specs won't set the world aflame, but there's still a lot of power packed into a very small footprint!

https://www.hackster.io/news/toradex-announces-new-osm-lino-computer-on-module-ranges-for-edge-ai-industrial-and-iot-3255d71e527d

#Technology #News #Hackster

NVIDIA, meanwhile, has announced CUDA Tiles, a new programming paradigm which it says will make writing portable yet performant (NVIDIA) GPU-accelerated programs easier - and the first language to benefit is Python, via cuTile Python.

https://www.hackster.io/news/nvidia-makes-gpu-acceleration-easier-more-portable-with-cuda-tiles-cutile-python-b808c1ad7e4d

#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Hackster #News

Right, last #Hackster round-up of the week, and we're starting with an all-in-one development board from RT-Thread which comes running an on-board local large language model, because of course it does:

https://www.hackster.io/news/rt-thread-targets-energy-efficient-edge-ai-ml-with-the-compact-all-in-one-edgi-talk-board-db7097bc98ef

#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLM #News