Long article about Chinese Chess at New York's Columbus Park.
The rules of Tablut.
Nick Bentley's guide to abstract strategy games.
Database of Xiangqi games organized by opening.
Zach Beavin's 2019 Strolling Jim race report
"At 42 years of age, Christian Glawe went from 1743 to a peak 1944 (USCF) in 6 months. Here's how he did it."
A list of EE podcasts
Why do what you're good at when you could be doing what you like?
My favorite tournament report so far.
Wesley So on emigrating to the US and how Chess960 is his favorite variant.
Writeup on an effort to design and produce 200 little flyback converters (meant for powering Nixie tubes).
Successfully executing a replay attack against a wireless key fob using inexpensive hardware and GNU Radio (based on Samy Kamkar's original hack).
This is an entire PC-compatible single-board computer implemented with an 8051 microcontroller (!) running an x86 emulator.
I've been able to find very little about the Appotech AX-2005 System-on-chip, just the first page of its datasheet (it runs at 125Mhz):
Seems like good advice.
This TTL computer looks like an interesting design:
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It implements an 8-bit RISC CPU with an 8-instruction CPU using a surprisingly small number of chips: just 36 standard TTL chips, a ROM, and an SRAM chip.
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The VGA output is generated entirely in software with no additional graphics hardware (other than a resistor DAC). User code runs only during the hsync and vsync periods.
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The ROM kernel takes care of all the VGA timing and runs a virtual machine which presents itself as a 16-bit CPU and includes an interpreter so programs can be written in a high level language.
Wow, I didn't know until today that anyone had ever written an OS for the TI-89/TI-92 calculators.
ticacl.org link: https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/319/31951.html
And someone else has made one too! Called Punix: http://punix-os.blogspot.com/
The author of Punix has also published a skeleton OS for anyone else who wants to play with it: https://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7345&start=0
How to write tiny ELF executables by hand.
Pamphlet providing some context and summary of the Book of Amos.