Al Williams, Author at Maker News

Want Lower Power? Add More Cores!

[Jacob Beningo] over at Embedded.com recently posted his thoughts on how to do a low-power microcontroller design. On the surface,

It really isn’t necessary, but there is some geek cred to learning pi to some bizarre number of digits. One

The early bird may get the worm, but [Stephen Chasey’s] birds only get to eat if they are smart. He’s

If you want to start a heated discussion in 3D printing circles, ask people about the requirements to print safely.

I grew up in a small town with a small library. The next town over had what I thought at

It was always easy to spot engineering students in college. They had slide rules on their belts (later, calculators) and

Monthly bills. Everyone has them. Except if you go far enough back, not everyone had them. After all, you might

You might think that making your own electronic games would require some kind of LCD, but lately, [Mirko Pavleski] has

[Adrian] comments that the BBC Master 128 is a rare 8-bit computer, and we agree — we couldn’t remember hearing

Researchers in Canada and the United States have used deep learning to derive an antibiotic that can attack a resistant