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A tiny game console based on Attiny85

I had some Attiny85 chips lying around my desk and a few free days, so I went looking for projects. I found that Daniel Champagne had already created several games...

Flicker-free text scrolling with Double buffering in Windows

If you’ve tried scrolling text over an image in a Win32 application, you’ve probably seen flickering. The text doesn’t draw cleanly over the background. This happens because Windows repaints the...

Introduction to software reverse engineering

Reverse engineering is taking apart software to understand how it works. Security researchers use it to analyze malware. Testers use it for black-box security analysis. Sometimes you just want to...

Changing Windows Aero color with Win32 programming

Windows Vista introduced the Desktop Window Manager (DWM), which uses hardware acceleration for the UI and enables the Aero glass effects. Each program writes to its own buffer, and DWM...

Training Yolo v3 model using custom dataset on Google colab

YOLO (You Only Look Once) trades some accuracy for speed. Instead of running a classifier at multiple locations and scales, YOLO applies a single neural network to the full image....

Tiny Pi Pro, a super tiny gaming handheld based on Raspberry Pi Zero

When the TinyPi Pro kit arrived, I wasn’t sure I could actually play games on something this small. The whole thing fits on a keychain. But it works.