Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
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What offers the convenience of a cassette tape, and the sound quality of a CD? Digital Audio Tape (DAT) does. So why wasn't it more successful?
Do Meshtastic, MeshCore and the like revolutionize off-grid communication?
This is the first of (at least) two articles on loading and running arbitrary executable code into RAM on the Pico, and running it.
BMW's C1 was an odd combination of car and motorcycle. It seemed to offer the advantages of both, and yet it wasn't a commercial success. Why?
AC circuit analysis relies heavily on complex numbers, and the concept of 'complex impedance'. But why? What actually is a complex impedance?
3D movie technology is fading away. Perhaps we should be asking why movie studios embraced it so fervently, when it had already tanked in the 1950s?
The bicycle that did for our legs what the Sony Walkman did for our ears.
Pimoroni's 'GFX Pack' is an inexpensive, low-power LCD display, with modest resolution. This article describes my experience using and programming it.
I frequently have to read documents that look as if the writer was given a bag of capital letters, and told to use them all up. Like many aspects of English, capitalization has few rules that are set in stone; but there are some...
It's not my fault that my avoidance of social media makes me hard to contact. It's your fault for letting yourself become hooked on it.
For too long, mega-corporations have been able to avoid liability for defective software. But will upcoming changes to the law adversely affect those who distribute open-source software free-of-charge?
A series of simple, progressive examples that demonstrate the essential features of programming in ARM assembly language.
It's an old scam, but it's recently resurfaced in a slicker, more convincing form
There's no shortage of guidance on writing English that people will want to read. In science and technology, however, can we apply the same guidelines without losing information?
As part of my campaign to eliminate wall-warts and external power supplies that don't have on/off switches, I've built a USB charger that has a mains switch. Why? Because nobody seems to sell one.