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TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank.My rental apartment's AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking analog knob-based controls, mounted right onto the unit. No s

Have you ever wondered what's the smallest amount of static storage (code + data) needed to map emoji :shortcodes: to emoji?Probably not… but now that I've posed the question, aren't you at least a little curious what the answer might be?So hey, if you've

Like any great systems programming language, it doesn't take much of anything to get C up and running on a new platform.In fact, a minimal C "runtime" (typically called crt0) only consists of a short prelude that zeroes out the .bss section and hands off

The NES was one of the flagship consoles of the glorious era that was the 1980s. Many of the most popular games on the platform involved some sort of adventure through scrolling screens -- Metroid, Su...

PPU mapping algorithm automatically tracks the game world as you play.