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Installing a new NVIDIA RTX 4090
NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU It's time to upgrade the GPU in my primary dev machine...first 3-slot card in there...I guess I'll need two more...

Tom Gambill
Feb 81 min read
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SMD Hot Air Rework Station
I got myself a new toy! This should make it way easier to solder SMD boards!

Tom Gambill
Feb 41 min read
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Circuit Design
This week I'm working on another retro PC build, this time a Z80-based design, maybe even with display capability! I also got some...

Tom Gambill
Feb 31 min read
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Focal Point VR Moves Into Autonomous Drones
Streaming VR Video company Focal Point VR announces partnership with Windracers: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/focal-point-vr-announce-c...

Tom Gambill
Jan 301 min read
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Focal Point VR, A2RL and Vislink win the 'Best Innovation Project' award at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2024
One of my founded companies just won Best Innovation Project at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2024! You can check out the details...

Tom Gambill
Dec 3, 20241 min read
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Getting set up for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Computer Graphics at SIGGRAPH in LA!
Here are a few pics from our setup at the 50th Anniversary Celebration SIGGRAPH conference! Time Tunnel - History of SIGGRAPH - Images,...

Tom Gambill
Jan 18, 20241 min read
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Added an MT32-Pi Zero to the Mister for Sound Support
Using the custom real-time OS created by maker Yavimaya, we can now use a Raspberry Pi Zero to emulate the Roland MT-32 Synthesizer from...

Tom Gambill
Oct 17, 20221 min read
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Great Showing for Games at SIGGRAPH 2022
Especially well represented was the game tech from Guerrilla Games Horizon: Forbidden West. They talked about their ocean and water...

Tom Gambill
Aug 11, 20221 min read
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Oxide Games Announces New Stragegy Game "Ara: History Untold"
A major client of ours, Oxide Games, have recently announced ARA: History Untold. A strategy game in which you can play through...

Tom Gambill
Jun 22, 20221 min read
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Vintage Computer Festival East 2022
This year's VCF East 2022 conference was in person at last. The first two days have been jam-packed with great talks and some amazing...

Tom Gambill
Apr 23, 20221 min read
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Ember CPU Interrupt Handling
It has been a while, lots going on as travel is a thing again and work picks up, but the next installment on the Ember CPU is up. Check...

Tom Gambill
Mar 31, 20221 min read
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IARI Technologies is back in person at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco
We are back live in person this year and loving it!

Tom Gambill
Mar 23, 20221 min read
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Meetup at the Game Developer Conference 2022 (GDC)
If you are attending GDC in San Fransisco this year and want to meet up and discuss 3D graphics or retro computers, let me know! You can...

Tom Gambill
Mar 8, 20221 min read
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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 6: Jumps and Conditional Branches
The next post is up on the Ember Blog! Check out The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 6: Jumps and Conditional Branches !

Tom Gambill
Feb 13, 20221 min read
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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 5: Load-Store and Memory Instructions
Check out the latest post on the Ember CPU Design!

Tom Gambill
Jan 31, 20221 min read
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Fun with FPGAs and CPU Design
I have been hard at work on the Ember CPU design, developing the FPGA hardware implementation in SystemVerilog for the Spartan Edge...

Tom Gambill
Jan 27, 20221 min read
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16-Bit Computer Built Entirely Out of Discrete Logic
Now, this is truly an inspiration! And Truly "Old School"! Ember is completely virtual for now, but even in hardware, it would be built...

Tom Gambill
Dec 11, 20211 min read
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Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78
Kotaku reported recently that Masayuki Uemura passed away. He was an inspiration to many and will be missed. Many of us will only dream...

Tom Gambill
Dec 10, 20211 min read
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Seeed Spartan Edge FPGA In The House!
We got a Spartan Edge Accelerator FPGA board from Seed all set up for some hacking! The plan is to first get basic HDMI support working...

Tom Gambill
Dec 6, 20211 min read
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Project Ember Blog - Now On Medium!
While the Ember Hackaday site is geared toward those more interested in the purely technical details, we will also be posting on our...

Tom Gambill
Dec 6, 20211 min read
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