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Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight
We took a look at what’s going on inside the mattress peddler’s surprisingly complicated nightlight with a gorgeous user experience.
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A Camera Lens Made from an Iceberg
I made a camera lens with an Iceberg
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Heat Pumps Work Miracles
[ An updated treatment of some of this material appears in Chapter 6 of the Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet (free) textbook. ]
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How does the Hololens 2 matter?
So that happened, the Hololens 2 has been released. A few people have asked me what I think, so it’s about time I got my thoughts down on paper the interwebs. I’ve had a day or 2 to mull over it ...
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The Last POWER1 CPU on Mars Is Dead
The Opportunity Rover , also known as the Mars Exploration Rover B (or MER-1), has finally been declared at end of mission today after 5,3...
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Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)
What’s the oldest laptop you could reasonably do your job with? 3 years old? 5 years? 10? And if asked the same question 10 years ago, would your number be higher or lower? Thanks to a failing batte…
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System76 Thelio: A Review
The bottom line : Thelio, System76’s new “open hardware” desktop, is a small, beautiful, and powerful desktop computer that hits every high point anyone could have expected, faltering only in the inherent limitations of its small size.
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A FrankenPad Story: T25 with Quad-Core CPU and UHD LCD Panel
I like T25. Although, it wasn’t the ThinkPad of a dream, and its placement as a retro ThinkPad sounds ridiculous and frustratingly, for me it was the best modern ThinkPad...
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Librem 5 Smartphone: Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected, Shipping Adjustment
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location?
Here's an interesting user-hostile pattern which could easily be avoided if programmers and business-people thought like regular humans. I have a Pioneer / Onkyo sound system. It's pretty nice and comes with a (not too crappy) Android app to let me remote control it. One day, the app updated itself. The changelog was…
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A DIY Cruise Missile (2004)
I'd like to thank all those who have emailed me with their opinions, condemnations and support. The fact that I get so many emails obviously means that my goal of raising public awareness is working. Instead of answering the same questions and restating my perspectives repeatedly, I've been talked into writing a book…
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SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017)
In the process of writing a short introduction to RISC-V, we compared RISC-V vector code to SIMD. We were struck by the insidiousness of the SIMD instruction extensions of ARM, MIPS, and x86. We de…
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Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor
Explore the Duo Blog for expert tips, security insights, and resources to stay updated on the latest in security and access management trends.
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Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch
A few months ago, I completed a project to build an entire USB keyboard from scratch. This included electronic circuit design, PCB design, firmware coding, CAD design, assembly and usage. The final result is my daily driver work keyboard, which I affectionately call “KeeBee”:
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Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
Over the course of six weeks in January and February 2019, I took an introduction to stained glass course from Olivia Vavroch at Vavroch Glass Studio in north Portland, OR.
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An Introduction to CubeSats
An introduction that answers the questions what are cubesats, why they are so popular, what are their main subststems, and how does thier future look?
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The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted
Your Content Goes Here A female Swedish patient with hand amputation has become the first recipient of an osseo-neuromuscular implant to control a dexterous hand prosthesis. In a pioneering surgery, titanium implants were placed in the two forearm bones (radius and ulnar), from which electrodes to nerves and muscle…
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Building a RISC-V PC
How we assembled a RISC-V desktop computer. (video at the bottom of this post.) While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will
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Librem 5 Hardware Update
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk
Standing desks have become incredibly popular, and for good reason. Sitting for long periods of time can have long-term effects on your health, so if you work at a computer each day, the ability to…
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New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+
Compute Module 3+, the latest iteration of our flexible board for industrial applications, offers better performance and more Flash at competitive prices.
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How to Hack an Expensive Camera
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New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
Last January the Dell XPS 13 developer edition (9370) made its debut. Today we’re excited to announce that one year later its successor, the XPS 13 developer edition (9380), is now available…
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