Mastodawn

I built a microcontroller for high-assurance applications on TSMC 22nm. I call it the "Baochip-1x". Read more about what it is and how it came about at this blog post: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/baochip-1x-a-mostly-open-22nm-soc-for-high-assurance-applications/

chaseadam Mar 8

Matt Venn Mar 7

Happy to announce I won the European Open Source Academy Special Recognition for Skills and Education! @europeanOSacademy

https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/post/eosa_award/

chaseadam Feb 25

joey castillo Feb 25

true HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment this morning: over the holidays, my sticker guys were having a special on red octagons, so I designed and ordered 250 "Slop Sign" stickers — but while I was in China, someone stole them out of my mailbox. Bummer, I figured; they probably trashed them as worthless. anyway while walking to the subway I FOUND ONE OF MY STICKERS STUCK TO A MAILBOX! Whoever swiped my stickers is sticking them up around the neighborhood! This is the best thing that could have happened!

chaseadam Feb 25

tnt Feb 24

If you're a swiss resident ( or know one ... ) you can get a custom hardware design onto an ASIC for FREE !!!

You get back one chip with your design (and a bunch of others!) and some board to help bring up/testing.

Also, this is "resident", no need to be a student or at uni or anything, you just need a valid Swiss address ...

I know I might be repeating myself here because I mentioned it a few month back but this bear repeating IMHO.

https://swisschips.ethz.ch/news-and-events/tiny-tapeout-submission-form.html

PS: Can I haz boost for reach ?

Tiny Tapeout Submission Form: for shuttles & workshops

SwissChips

chaseadam Feb 24

Tech Tangents Feb 21

Well I had a fun day today!

These are unaltered direct photos (other than mirroring) of a CED and a Laserdisc where using diffraction grating I was able to VISIBLY SEE video physically encoded on the disc!

I will be editing a video about this process but also did a quick write up about it on my wiki here with the direct sample images:

https://wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/Seeing_Media

chaseadam Feb 22

Information Is Beautiful Feb 21

The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city

chaseadam Feb 21

kottke.org Feb 20

The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color. https://dialed.gg/

Color Game — How Well Can You Remember Colors?

We show you colors. You recreate them from memory. Challenge friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think. Play free at dialed.gg.

Dialed

chaseadam Feb 20

Kenneth Finnegan Feb 20

I got interviewed by @embedded ! https://embedded.fm/episodes/521

It was a lovely recording session and we only managed to cover about a quarter of the agenda for the conversation, so I suspect they might have me back at some time to get to the part of the story where I actually worked on embedded systems.

521: Are You the Tiny Domino? — Embedded

Kenneth Finnegan entertained us with stories about accidentally contributing to the internet’s ability to network. Wondering how the internet works? All those terms about IPv4, IPv6, BGP, OSPF, CDN and other alphabet soup? Check out the YouTube videos by NetworkChuck . Kenneth writes ab

Embedded

chaseadam Feb 1

Jake Williams Jan 31

The hackers had to be "bread in" to the operational details since everything was on a "knead to know" basis.

But they rose to the occasion - it was the yeast they could dough. Things were touch and go until they got on a roll - they'll do butter next time...
https://therecord.media/cyberattack-russian-bread-factory-supply-disruptions

Cyberattack on large Russian bread factory disrupts supply deliveries

The Vladimir Bread Factory — one of the largest bakery producers in its region — said in a statement that its internal digital systems were hit overnight on Sunday, knocking out office computers, servers and electronic document management tools.

chaseadam Feb 1

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Simen E. Sørensen Jan 31

@ArchiteuthisFlux yo man, this board is literally the Exogorth from the empire strikes back https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Exogorth