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Turn your PS3 into a science lab

The beginning of an interesting series has appeared on IBM's DeveloperWorks:

The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor has attracted a lot of fashionable attention for applications involving game playing and network data processing. However, there are many other, arguably more entertaining uses for this technology.

In this series of articles I will be using a Cell/B.E. processor -- resident within an off-the-shelf PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) -- to build a Linux-hosted piece of laboratory equipment...

By the time the series is finished, the author will have documented how to build a simple audio-bandwidth spectrum analyzer and function generator using Linux and the PS3 - [via] [image from] Link

Posted by Brian Jepson | May 30, 2007 02:17 PM
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