This Week In Tech - The TWiT Netcast Network

The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte: "The TWiT.tv Story

It all started in 1998 with a small cable network called ZDTV, a channel dedicated to covering computers, the Internet, and personal technology. The people behind this site all worked on that network as hosts, reporters, or producers.

In 2004, ZDTV, then called TechTV, was sold and dismantled. Former TechTV hosts, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and John C. Dvorak, and producers Robert Heron, David Prager, and Roger Chang went on to other jobs, but we stayed in touch, with each other, and with fans of the late TechTV. Those fans told us again and again how important TechTV had been in their lives, and how much they missed the channel. We missed working with each other, too."

GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY

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GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY

In the early years of the microcomputer, a special kind of game was being played.

With limited sound, simple graphics, and tiny amounts of computing power, the first games on home computers would hardly raise an eyebrow in the modern era of photorealism and surround sound. In a world of Quake, Half-Life and Halo, it is expected that a successful game must be loud, fast, and full of blazing life-like action.But in the early 1980s, an entire industry rose over the telling of tales, the solving of intricate puzzles and the art of writing. Like living books, these games described fantastic worlds to their readers, and then invited them to live within them. They were called "computer adventure games", and they used the most powerful graphics processor in the world: the human mind. Rising from side projects at universities and engineering companies, adventure games would describe a place, and then ask what to do next. They presented puzzles, tricks and traps to be overcome. They were filled with suspense, humor and sadness. And they offered a unique type of joy as players discovered how to negotiate the obstacles and think their way to victory. These players have carried their memories of these text adventures to the modern day, and a whole new generation of authors have taken up the torch to present a new set of places to explore. Get Lamp is a documentary that will tell the story of the creation of these incredible games, in the words of the people who made them.

Transistor RS Flip Flop Tutorial & Circuits - Flip Flop Tutorials - Electronic Hobby Projects

Transistor RS Flip Flop Tutorial & Circuits - Flip Flop Tutorials - Electronic Hobby Projects:

"A Transistor RS Flip Flop Tutorial"

This is a type of bistable multivibrator, with two stable states.

The Flip Flop

The Flip Flop

Build your own Transistor Flip Flop circuit and learn how it works

Relay flip-flop � Visual Art and Obscure Technology

Relay flip-flop � Visual Art and Obscure Technology

This circuit uses three relays. One input is the clock which is shown as a push switch. The other main input is the D or DATA input which is the two way switch on the left. When you apply power to the clock input, the circuit copies the state of the D input, either on or off, into the output relay called Q here. But the important part which is the tricky bit of the design is that the circuit is edge-triggered which means that following the moment that the clock input is energised, the D input can be changed without affecting the output. More specifically, the D input can come from the Q output of another flip-flop circuit with the same clock and there won’t be any race condition. This is because changes of state on the D input are guaranteed to be locked out before the Q relay changes to reflect the pre-existing state of the D input.

Reprogrammable NES cartridge

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Reprogrammable NES cartridge

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