What are the practical applications of this? The things that come to mind when I hear "ultrasound" are medical devices and wall scanners.

That said, it's a cool project, even if it doesn't have a practical use.

If you go to the home page it gives a list of applications:

Quote:

> The hardware is designed for pedagogical and prototyping purposes. Common applications include:

> - Pulse-echo / A-mode imaging — the core use case (details)

> - Non-destructive testing — crack detection, material characterization (details)

> - Ultrasound tomography — transmission and reflection modes (details)

> - Array imaging — synthetic aperture beamforming with the MUX PMOD extension

> - Transducer characterization — test and evaluate piezoelectric probes (compatible probes)

> - Signal processing research — a flexible platform for new methods

How much does display calibration factor into this? I'm fairly confident it must impact the results, but unsure how much error it would introduce.

I always wanted to have a color calibrator and a few years back i bought one.

all my displays were so well defined out of the box, it wasnot worth it at all. Like you would need to use this particular profile for proper real industry printers to even have any benefit of it if even because all my displays were well calibrated.

I would argue that this would only make sense for highly profesional graphics designer and i don't think this experiment requires this level of granularity.

A lot of the color calibration obsession was from back when panels shipped with truly awful factory calibration. A quick perusal of rtings suggests that most manufacturers try and pre-calibrate their panels these days

Ambient light color would play a bigger part, with modern displays being fairly good.

Related, here's a nice collection of measurements: https://www.displaymate.com/mobile.html

The last few generations of most everything have been rated "Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect", so it seems they don't test as much anymore.

"Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" ~Jake the Dog (Adventure Time)

I feel this doesn't get taught enough in school and it's a really important life lesson.

Honestly surprised it took this long. I guess it's less than ideal, since the wii doesn't support modern tv resolutions.

The Wii supports 240p, though, which is very hard to replicate these days.

Or 480i if you want to watch classic anime on a CRT.

It can't really decode 480p/i very well.

The fact that it has component video out makes it a swiss army knife for everything else 240p/480i/480p.

Indeed.

I watched a backup of a [480p24] DVD movie with a (hacked) Wii quite a long time ago, as a fallback after the PS3 I was using got tripped up on that film's Cinavia[1] watermarks.

The Wii worked OK-ish, but it was evident that it was barely keeping up with decoding the MPEG 2 video from the disc and putting it on the screen. Perhaps there is or was better software for that job, but there were some glitches and brief hangs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

If we could send every politician as a prerequisite for the job, I think it would greatly benefit mankind. It would be far more difficult to make corrupt decisions after seeing our only inhabitable rock against that vast emptiness, or at least one would hope so.

I'm always blown away by these photos. I'm sure this is even more spectacular in person. Good idea on the desktop background ;)

Neat educational game. Would have liked to see Maple Mono in the line up, but I'm sure you've gotta draw the line somewhere or the game would be too tedious.

Same. Came down to Fira Code and PT Mono. I already use Fira Code, so I probably biased to what I'm used to. I do think that Fira Code is hard to beat when it comes to ambiguous characters.

I really thought we'd be using a Firefox powered by Servo by now, but instead we're getting a second UI rewrite. At least it's not becoming a chromium wrapper.

Second?

Firefox was a UI rewrite before it was even called Firefox and there been several more since then.

Agreed, once you've spent hrs fighting with C build tools under a deadline, it becomes very easy to see why this is beneficial.

It's can a long time since I've heard those sound clips. Brings back a lot of great memories of playing WCIII as a teen. Didn't have the money at the time to play WoW, so I ended up playing Guild wars instead.

I never tried playing the WCIII reboot after hearing some pretty bad reviews.