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Reverse Engineering a Real Candle
Two years ago, I spent some time analyzing the algorithm used in a candle flicker LED as commonly found in cheap artificial candles. I reverse engineered the algorithm from the flickering pattern…
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Why the 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro still sells
The 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro, model MD101LL/A , was launched in 2012 for $1199 . Almost four years later, it’s still for sale , completely unchanged except for a price drop to $1099 in 2013.
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Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow
New technology will extend Wi-Fi® solutions for the Internet of Things
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Reverse engineering the ARM1, ancestor of the iPhone's processor
Almost every smartphone uses a processor based on the ARM1 chip created in 1985. The Visual ARM1 simulator shows what happens inside the...
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Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications
Landmark advance to usher in new era of ultrafast communications
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MirrorMirror: A Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror
A magic mirror is a raspberry pi powered monitor behind a double sided mirror. A mostly black web page allows you to add some widgets to the mirror’s reflection as if by magic. This version includes widgets for displaying the weather forecast, the date/time and a nice randomly generated greeting. No low level hardware…
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Moore's law hits the roof
Software optimization resources | E-mail subscription to this blog | www.agner.org
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Wifibroadcast – Analog-like transmission of live video data
Wifibroadcast is a project aimed at the live transmission of HD video (and other) data using wifi radios. One prominent use case is to transmit camera images for a first person view (FPV) of remote…
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Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
Philips has published a firmware update that blocks pairing of any 3rd party light.
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Facebook to open-source AI hardware design
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Raspberry Pi Zero vs. Elliott 405
Twitter users @SadHappyAmazing and @HistoricalPics posted yesterday two photographs (copy) showing the Raspberry Pi Zero juxtaposed in front of the Norwich City Council Treasurer's Department building, where the delivery of the Elliott 405 computer was photographed in 1957. Here is how the two computers compare.
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Building the Tamagotchi Singularity
I also gave a talk about this project on the Hackaday Superconference 2015. There is a video available of that if you'd rather watch me talk. You can also directly view the end result if you so please.
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Office Papermaking System That Turns Waste Paper into New Paper
2026 News Release
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Why FPGA manufacturers keep their bitstream formats secret
Every FPGA vendor keeps the bitstream format for their device secret. Only the tools provided in binary-only format by the vendor (and a select few third parties under NDA) can generate these bitstreams.
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DIY Laptop 64 bit ARM
Few weeks ago I blogged about the idea to make OSHW Laptop based on Allwinner A64 64-bit SoC. Today we received the first samples of the laptop plastic body. The quality of the plastic parts is ver…
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Raspberry Pi Zero Hidden in an Xbox Controller
I like to tinker. My wife picked me up the new Raspberry Pi Zero. It's an ultra small and ridiculously cheap computer. How small and cheap? They give it away free on the cover of magazines... Terence Eden is on Mastodon@edentIf you hurry down to WHSmith in Oxford, there are still a few @TheMagP1 copies left.❤️ 3💬 0🔁…
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The Visual ARM1
Today is the 25th anniversary of ARM Ltd., UK. To celebrate and honor their amazing work, we present the Visual ARM1 , created in collabo...
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Listening to satellites for $30
I've ever dreamed of space & satellites, it turms out you can received pictures from them.
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Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
Of all the things we do at Raspberry Pi, driving down the cost of computer hardware remains one of the most important. Even in the developed world, a programmable computer is a luxury item for a lot of people, and every extra dollar that we ask someone to spend decreases the chance that they’ll choose […]
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Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
Have you ever wondered what's inside your Macbook's charger? There's a lot more circuitry crammed into the compact power adapter than you...