What better way to dive into history than to try foods that represent that culture? Check out Black Restaurant Week if you’re in NYC this week.Black Restaurant Week is presenting its 5th annual campaign in New York Tri-State Region. Discover black-owned restaurants food trucks, sweets, and more across New York City, New Jersey townships, and additional...

At Adafruit, new products and projects are always cooking and this week has been no different. I’m working towards a bigger project that involves a hardware design, specifically a custom development board. This board will require a vertical USB-C port. However, we haven’t done a design with a vertical USB C port…yet. It was time to design a part in...

The Old Vintage Computing Research blog presents the official 1.0 release of the Incredible KIMplement, an emulator of the one kilobyte, 1MHz MOS/Commodore KIM-1 6502-based single board computer.It provides access to the KIM’s built-in TTY support (even through your computer’s real serial port) and has expanded RAM with 16K of addressing space, all...

PBS lists 14 books highlighting the history and importance of Juneteenth.Juneteenth (June + nineteenth), also called Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, or Emancipation Day, is the observance of June 19, 1865 — the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. This now official U.S. federal holiday has a rich, deep history. The...

“Static Recompilation” is the process of turning a binary program built for one instruction set and CPU into equivalent native code for a different architecture. It’s a hot topic lately as news of a static recompilation process for N64 games – turning the original MIPS code into x86 executables for Windows – seemingly promises an entirely new level...

Hey Folks. Pedro and I are off for the next two weeks. 3D hangouts will return July 3rd, 2024. Until then, remember to Make A Great Day!If you missed last week’s stream, you can watch it on YouTube by clicking on the thumbnail below.