In ancient times (about 20 years ago), before the home computer and the Internet, a "bit" was something a horse gripped between its teeth, "byte" was a misspelled variant of "bite," "kilo" was drug ...

Gray code is a systematic ordering of binary numbers in a way that each successive value differs from the previous one in ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

I'm ashamed to admit that as a programmer I've never worked with binary data.<BR>Anyway, now that that's out of the way...<BR><BR><BR>I know you can do simple ...

In the computer, all data are represented as binary digits (bits), and eight binary digits make up one byte. For example, the upper case letter A is 0101001. Numbers however can take several forms.

In the first column of this series, I introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In my second column I discussed how we go about adding and subtracting unsigned BCD ...

Every AVR microcontroller, from the ATtiny in your thermostat to the ATMega in your Arduino, stores its configuration in a series of fuse bits. These fuse bits control settings such as the multiplier ...

The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign with ...