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3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the 'world’s first microprocessor'

Open source resources include code, documentation, and testbenches for all six original CADC chips.
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Algae Powered a Computer for More Than Six Months

There’s “green energy” and then there’s truly GREEN energy, or rather, blue-green energy. A colorful colony of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, known as blue-green algae, have successfully powered a ...
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Adafruit’s Fruit Jam is a credit card-sized computer with a RP2350B microprocessor

The Fruit Jam is a single board computer (SBC) that’s about the size of a credit card, or a Raspberry Pi Model B. But while the latest Raspberry Pi SBCs are powered by a 2.4 GHz quad-core ARM ...

In 1971, Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff fitted a calculator brain onto one chip, invented the microprocessor that led to the personal computers we still use today

Long before laptops, smartphones, and personal computers became part of everyday life, computers were large, expensive ...
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Olimex Neo6502pc is a retro PC that combines an Apple II compatible chip with a RP2040 microprocessor

The Olimex Neo6502pc is a modern mini computer designed to run some very old software. At its heart is a single-board computer that features a 6.25 MHz W65C02 processor that’s similar to the 6502 chip ...