Blog Archive: December 2024
Throatless Rocket Engines
On August 8th, 2005 In Technology
I know it sounds like Buckaroo Bonzai, but I have a soft spot for people on a mission.
The folks at a new type of rocket engine.
It's "throatless". I'm going to say this means that if it can be
made to work (where work = not melt down or blow up) it could mean
that a normal machine shop could be building rocket engines capable
of putting
Generating RF signals with your VGA card
On August 8th, 2005 In Technology
This enterprising young man was able to generate RF signals a VGA card. Thought that was a pretty neat trick and made me think of some other possible uses.
After all, it's just a high speed bit
Very small, fast X86 C compile
On August 8th, 2005 In Technology
Some of my embedded work is on X86 (believe it or not). The "tcc"
compiler is very, very small and very very fast. At 140k it can
fit on small CF file systems. And with the "-run" option it makes C
into a scripting language.
It's an impressive piece of work, capable of compiling the linux