These are some random interesting articles I discovered during
Raspberry Pi research.
Boeing, why is the company called Boeing? It’s because it was founded
by William Boeing. Indeed, the goal of the company early on was to
focus on building airplanes. There’s quite an interesting history
section on this blog article, and you can clearly see the visual
difference between the early, obsolescent not-so-well designed
aircraft and the rapid progression to fully modern aviation, not just
in terms of technology, but also in terms of style in the practice
of running the businesses involved, and the purposes of the technology
being used.
20181228/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing
20,000 feet you ask? Why does that number just feature in my head
automatically when thinking about the “cool aviation of drones”?
“Drone flying high, at 20,000 feet.” Well, let’s see. What does
Wikipedia have to say about this specifically. Not much,
unfortunately. That being said, I guess the Boeing article reference
to the first passenger airplane to fly at 20,000 feet with a pressurized
cabin is by far the best source you can come by.
20181228/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet
This is a pretty interesting article reflecting on the history of Doom
over the past 25 years, and how even the original game engine is still
massively popular today. Often times one of the developing software
to target miscellaneous computer hardware is “Does it run Doom?” Oh,
and there was also an interesting mention of playing Doom on an ATM.
Read on →