Ian Hanschen @furan Twitter profile

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Ian Hanschen

3 months

Reverse engineered NVIDIA G-Sync FPGA module on my PCI VGA passthrough card doing a modified @sylefeb Silice Menger sponge demo. Need to finish routing V2 of the carrier board this weekend.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

Full stack developer

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

6 years

Today's weird chip. The HSN-1000 nuclear event detector.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

Like this tweet if you wanna help me tell @InWin that if they bring back the IW-500 and Q2000 line of cases, they will sell like crazy for retro computer folks and folks who want a classy case.

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Ian Hanschen

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5 years

TADA! I made a working FPGA video card. So much learning had to come together. I guess the Windows display-only driver comes next.

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5 years

Here is my homebrew FPGA based PCI express video card up and running on Windows 10. The display only driver sample (which is the same code roughly as the basic display driver) is just that good to start from.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

yes this was a real product

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1 year

There are a few gigantic Intergraph PCBs on eBay, probably for one of their very early graphics workstations. One of them has socketed 74-series logic and things like bit slice processors, a 16x16 multiplier, etc. I have too many projects and not enough free time so these parts

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

“goto” in C is fine. It’s a fucking jmp. Fight me.

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@furan

2 years

Jazz Jackrabbit really seems to play with the VGA palette more than any of the games I’ve tried so far.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

I cannot imagine hating T9 enough to do this.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

Are you tired of attaching a monitor to your network file server tower, and wasting space? Maybe the drive bay CRT is for you! via

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

This project took me so long to finish that it deserves a real video (coming) but in the mean time please enjoy this potato quality preview of an FPGA based PCI board snooping and displaying writes to the VGA palette from the PCI bus on the fly.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

Only in Japan: a mini PCI-E card you can put in your laptop to hear the PC-98 startup sound when turning your laptop on. They also sell a USB dongle for doing the same.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

Well that's neat. This is the Cray CX1 deskside computer, which has a bunch of server blades in it. But it sits at your desk, so what do they do about the noise? Active noise cancelation via the some beefy speakers at the front. I assure you, they are not there for easy listening

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@furan

4 years

The Internet: "this is the year of the Linux desktop!" Me: changing the brightness of the secondary display on my laptop like

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

That’s a nice aroma diffuser

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2 years

アロマデュフューザーにスプレー缶で色をつけてみました。なかなかいい感じになったと思う。

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@furan

2 years

I suppose that yes, you could call this a PCI card. It has a bracket and PCI fingers and it's a full length card. It's also full height. Fullest height.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

5 years

It is very cool how people in Japan choose to take such good care of their old hardware, keep all of the boxes and paperwork for it, and then someday post an auction with "Junk" in the title and sell it for cheap. Very cool.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

I was not prepared for this.

Face Depixelizer Neural Network "Brings Back The Sharpness" Of Photos In Low Resolution, And The...

A new digital tool built to depixelize photos sounds scary and bad. Another way to remove privacy from the world. But this tool is also being used for a sillier and not terrible purpose: Depixelizng...

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

10 months

Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) PCB "fabrication." Wow.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

1 year

“Because I’m worth it”

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

Error playing cards.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

tbh buying a 3d printer and messing with it to get it to print right sounds just like buying a 486 to play dos games and spending hours editing config.sys and autoexec.bat to get the right amount of conventional memory free only to have a cap in the power supply go bad.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

1 year

Usborne has made their 1980's computer books (with wonderful illustrations) freely downloadable. These were an ever-present part of my childhood.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

seems legit. just plug your ungrounded equipment in somewhere along those lines.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

this one is for all of you seen-everything freeloaders

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

Live view of DOOM's VGA palette showing damage and pickup highlights.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

9 months

4004 followers. Thanks!

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

This is the SFX-2+ Development System, A SNES on a card that sits on the PC ISA bus (well actually in that 3x3 inch board on the end), with support for developing for SNES DSP, SuperFX, and SuperFX2 cartridge chips. So much of this stuff has just been lost to time over the years.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

VGA palette visualized during the opening of Day of the Tentacle:

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

I'm going to make an exe that runs under dos and when you run it on windows it just pops a messagebox that says "This application requires MS-DOS to run."

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

GOLD

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

Back to thinking about crazy upgrades. This is my modified 286 to 386 upgrade. I swapped out an Intel 386sx/20 for an IBM 486SLC2/50. The bridge across the top of the chip is for the 3.6v supply. I/O is 5V tolerant. Thinking about doing a 386sx to Pentium Overdrive (83MHz) board

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

10 months

Sometimes I wonder if Shuji Nakamura ever regrets pioneering high efficiency blue LEDs. Like maybe he buys a product, plugs it it in and wham! 450nm right into the eyeballs

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

@BenKrasnow My favorite thing about complex queries is I'll get the exact results I wanted but Google will add a "it looks like there aren't any great results for your search" banner at the top.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

Jazz Jackrabbit using palette cycling to implement the far parallax

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

5 years

This is the IN WIN IW-Q2000. Clearly you can see why I need it.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

Linux is only going to become the most popular OS in space because it doesn’t matter if audio works in the vacuum of space. Thank you, I will continue to recycle this joke for years.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

@realGeorgeHotz Surely, using a poll on twitter, we will figure this thing out.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

In case you were wondering, yes, the wall of LEDs is still awesome. I am going to try to put DOS games on it directly tonight. Video stolen from @dosnostalgic , Tempest 2000 for MS-DOS.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

A first for me: this is a magnetic screw head, used to secure an LED panel in a Planar LED video wall, where the panels have to be seamless. A magnetic screwdriver is used to turn these, inside of the panel, from the front of the panel to install or remove for servicing.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 months

A new FPGA-based 90’s GPU contender arrives. Hopefully more details will be posted soon.

FuryGpu

www.furygpu.com

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

5 years

So over the last couple days I ported all of the legacy boot code from the virtual machine OVMF package in the TianoCore UEFI BIOS over to the Intel Quark hardware reference. I’m using SeaBIOS as a compatibility support module. Here it is running DOOM II under MS-DOS. More soon.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

Please.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

This is the way.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

When the project is done and the engineer explains that it was done to spec and pours water over it to show you it works.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

Well done! Showing how a platter-based drive head seeks by replacing the cover with plexiglass.

ex709

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会社にあるジャンク⑦ 後輩が「HDDの回転待ちはわかるのですがシークってなんすか？」と聞いてきたので仕方ねぇな・・・とQuantumの500MBのHDDをその場でバラしてプラ板で蓋をしてセローテープで密閉したもの。「これが回転、これがシーク！」とかやってましたw まだ動きますなw #会社装備

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

1 year

The CRT Terminator is an ISA board that takes video out from the VGA feature connector and turns it into HDMI. Really impressive.

𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕝𝕪 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕜𝕚𝕟 🔜 𝐋𝐈 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨

@dosnostalgic

1 year

CRT Terminator, an interesting project of capturing vintage PC videocard digital output using a feature connector, and converting it into clean HD image a modern monitor can display

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@furan

3 years

Whoever took these photos has a lot of pride in owning these vintage 90’s translucent PC cases.

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@furan

3 years

I love how the optical cable slinks in from the right. If you can flash an LED fast enough, you’ve got TOSLINK/optical digital audio out.

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積みマイコンしてるとアレなんで、とりあえずRaspberry Pi PicoでLチカ(笑)してみた。え？チカってないって？ゲームセンター荒らし位の動体視力があれば見れるんちゃうか多分笑

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

11 months

IBM adding a 3D effect didn't really help this block diagram for one of their VGA DACs - but it looks cool. (IBM RGB524 palette DAC)

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

Somehow I missed this interview with Creative Lab's Sim Wong Hoo, about the creation of the Sound Blaster series of cards. Here are some photos of the original Sound Blaster prototype, which was then dubbed "Killer Card" by Creative (photos via vgmpf).

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

6 years

My dos gaming 486. Inspired by @lazygamereviews and @dosnostalgic

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

2 years

I thought the Hayes Chronograph was just a nice-looking clock to sit above your external modem, turns out its purpose was to provide a serially connected real time clock to computers, many of which lacked a real time clock back then. The display was a nice bonus.

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The Hayes Chronograph updated the time properly for me last night thanks to the WiFi upgrade I installed. Looks like I may have fixed the long standing DST issue. If you have one, you can update the firmware from the web interface. #RetroComputing

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

Install all of these thermal load cards to speed up your computer. They will make it uh, go... fast.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

9 months

Imagine all of the people who think that C is dead…

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@iammemeloper C is used in University. Nowhere else.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

Remember staring at this and waiting?

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

Hey look it’s the nVidia NV1. Their first accelerator, on a Diamond Edge 3D. This card was pre-Direct3D and supported Windows 3.1. It used quads and some Saturn games were ported to PC for it. Built in sound and that jack is for a PC joystick dongle. VGA performance was sub-par.

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@furan

4 years

Just purchased some vintage LEDs for a vintage microcomputer build.

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@furan

4 years

@SwiftOnSecurity There are now security consultants who have never seen The Matrix.

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@furan

4 months

The display on the Teenage Engineering K.O. II sampler composer looks almost like a VFD. But it is a combination of a 3-digit 14-segment LED display and an LED-illuminated transparency for the icons. They refer to it as a "super segment hybrid display." Nice way to save on costs.

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@furan

1 year

I didn't know Noritake made a square (128x128 pixel) VFD and now I want it.

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@furan

3 years

@kuromametaro620 @Mitsuhiro_0712 Torn between the desire to destroy it, and not wanting to destroy your son’s creation, kitty does not know what to do.

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@furan

3 years

A long time ago, I really enjoyed Richard E. Ferraro's "Programmers Guide to the EGA and VGA cards." I knew of the new edition that covered Super VGA and accelerator programming, but didn't know how comprehensive it was. It is comprehensive, with a chapter per-company/accelerator

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

I think this is the rarest game box I own and no you can't have it.

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@furan

5 years

Stuff like this makes me go from "I know C++, I've been writing C++ code for 15 years" to "Let's just throw it in a volcano and hope nobody discovers it in the future."

Travis Downs

@trav_downs

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Yesterday I learned (YIL?) that even if a type is standard layout, and trivially copyable, it is not always safe, even in practice, to use it a destination for std::memcpy or to zero it with std::memset. That is, the following is not safe:

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@furan

4 years

PCIe over cable in the industry versus in the market

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@furan

5 years

Heat sensitive Intel mug. Today I am drinking enough coffee in the mug that the 486 appeared.

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@furan

1 year

I was gifted a new toy which arrived today... 1,150,000 LEs. I would be happy to design something that neatly used 50,000.

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@furan

7 months

Now Design It.

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@furan

2 years

Before the MHz display, someone had a "MIPS Meter."

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@furan

1 year

Zooming in a PDF, then realizing you're scaling up a bitmap.

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@furan

2 years

An Imagination Technologies Caustic R2500 Ray Tracing Accelerator has shown up on eBay.

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@furan

4 years

Life doesn’t suck. I now have an FPGA board that can sit on the original PCI bus that has VGA in, VGA our, lots of SDRAM, and a decently sized FPGA. Reverse engineering it with the every pin is a uart that says it’s own number trick should be easy enough. Life does not suck.

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@furan

4 years

This is so weirdly accurate that it gave me a flashback.

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@furan

6 years

Adding a boot logo makes it real.

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@furan

4 years

Only playing adventure games on LED walls from now on. Where they should be played.

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@furan

3 years

"In great condition tested working!"

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@furan

3 years

Monday will mark my first day at Intel. I’m looking forward to taking my next steps in engineering more closely to the silicon. #IAmIntel

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@furan

5 months

I am both proud and humbled to share my promotion to Principal OS Kernel Engineer at Intel's Microsoft Technology Center. This opportunity excites me as I look forward to continuing my contributions to the development of cutting-edge technology in this new role.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

4 years

Weirdest ATX (probably) portable computer ever. Definitely milspec.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

9 months

Imagine a demoscene party in Las Vegas where the winning team gets to modify their demo for display on the sphere.

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@furan

4 years

It’s... good to see you, desktop.ini.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

3 years

The real story about when I made OLEDs is that learning how to make them was something to occupy my time off when my brain tumor from high school grew back and I was waiting for surgery. Completing the project was closure. I am brain tumor free and a little bit smarter for it.

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@furan

4 years

Playing Castle of the Winds (16 bit) via the very good WineVDM on 64 bit Windows 10. It registers itself as a 16 bit installer to automatically launch when you run a 16 bit app (DOS or Windows).

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@furan

4 years

I really don't like this.

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Ian Hanschen

@furan

5 years

It would be really cool if when the new Edge Browser detects that the Internet is down, pressing the space bar allowed you to play a game of NIBBLES.BAS, or GORILLAS.BAS against an AI. Just saying, because Chrome has the jumping dinosaur game, and we're better than that.

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@furan

2 years

10 year prediction: ARM ecosystem eats itself (IP lawsuits). RISC-V wins.

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@furan

1 year

What I’ve been working on:

Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture for the Future

PC computing rests heavily on Intel Architecture processors with an enormous installed base, and cloud computing is synonymous with Intel Architecture.

www.intel.com

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@furan

9 months

Arria II GX FPGA running the @sylefeb Silice Menger sponge demo at 1080p.

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@furan

4 years

Woohoo! I just bought a mostly destroyed Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ monitor for a paltry sum. The screen is completely cracked! The stand is broken, parts of the plastic are broken. The only thing really intact is the controller board inside. Yes, I just bought an Arria 10 FPGA module

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@furan

3 years

I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub:

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@furan

1 year

Stylish miniaturization and creative use of PCBs for case. Appears to use one of @adafruit ’s beveled corner LCDs.

ina_ani@4歳児のパパ

@ina_ani

1 year

手のひらサイズのキーボード付きの端末って、ワクワクしますよね！あとは日本語が打てれば・・・ってそれは流石に求め過ぎか・・ --- 手のひらサイズのZX Spectrumエミュレータ – inajobのいろいろレビュー #inajob

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Although the Windows NT OpenGL samples are available on an MSDN CD, and they can be found online, I didn't find them easy to find online, so I put them in a repo. The cool thing about these samples is they included the code for the 3D screensavers.