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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 4d

Starting this December I'll be traveling for about a year - the goal is to bounce between continents and chase good food/stories/experiences. Recommendations welcome.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14d

Google PR men: the web is thriving

Google in court, where it is illegal to lie: the web is in decline

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

www.theverge.com

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 14d

The masses were robbed of bicolor dot matrix vacuum fluorescent displays.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 17d

Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 19d

Thinking about attending Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) 39 in December.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 24d

Always wanted to go to a compo and help build a prod with some cool display hacks.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Sep 11

I think I'm gonna bury myself in a new PCB project for the next couple weeks and just try to pretend that everything else is gonna be fine. Maybe I'll come up with something fun.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Sep 7

I wanna take it apart

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Weird retro computing find: a Dream SAM9203 based ISA card with the GMS93160x sample ROMs that got them in hot water with Roland. I think it’s a reference design, labeled DREAM 92PCGM. Descent II approves. Photo in reply is from seller - I removed the stray component lead before trying the card out.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · May 18

I wonder when it will be for sale. DE-25 was posted 9 months ago and is not available yet. www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page...

www.terasic.com.tw

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · May 18

You can do i2s over HDMI though

Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · May 9

pretty sure this is a bug. hope this is a bug.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · May 9

This is a pretty good example of what it's like to try an LLM right now. Generating a table of JTAG instruction registers and their use based on the Verilog and interrupting itself to advertise a web development suite instead.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · May 8

If my network redundancy is working correctly I should be posting this through SPACE†

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space !

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space !

media.tenor.com

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · May 3

That gradient test pattern was generated during scanout. Took a few days but I finally got the trace delay settings close enough to scan a framebuffer out of DDR SDRAM. Now all board features are working/in use.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Apr 29

Sometimes it’s the little things. Reverse engineered Gidel PSDB_HDMI AD9889B TX output pattern generated by fully reverse engineered Gidel ProcSpark II ep2c35 FPGA PCI board. I wrote a new controller IP for the ep1c4 FPGA that sits in between the PCI bus and the main FPGA.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Apr 13

I am on too many social networks

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Mar 25

really interesting

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Mar 25

Wrote some i2c initialization for the ad9889 HDMI tx on a development board, was certain that I got it wrong because it looked like this, spent 2 hours tweaking it. Then I checked the schematic vs the default pin mappings provided with the kit in the golden top file - spot the bug.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Mar 22

geniu^H^H^H^H^Hworking out is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Mar 20

I do not regret buying an elliptical. It is a great low impact workout.

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Mar 20

This is it! Thanks!

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Mar 20

attention lazyweb - someone made a really great video about the 3dfx voodoo architecture (from a designer POV) and I cannot find it - help?

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · Mar 9

life is better when nobody knows what you're building