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Introducing the next generation of Mac
A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, the first in a family of chips designed by Apple specifically for the Mac.
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How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges
Hewlett & Packard, the founders, had great lessons to teach us (managers in high-tech) about culture. To the extend of quoting them in my awesome...
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AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2015)
In 2004 I built the first AppleCrate , an 8-board system, as an inexpensive, easy to program vehicle for experiments in parallel programming�a kind of "blade server" for the Apple II, if you will! AppleCrate I (at the time I didn't realize that it was number "I" ;-) was great fun, and it enabled some very interesting…
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What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?
Note: This post originally appeared as an update in the crowdfunding campaign for Precursor.
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The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
Since its founding in the 1930s, Hewlett-Packard has been synonymous with innovation, and many's the engineer who had cause to praise its workhorse oscillators, minicomputers, servers, and PCs. But since the turn of this century, the company's changed its name to HP and its focus to sleazy ways to...
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Let’s Build a Video Card
In these videos, I talk about how VGA signals work and build a circuit that provides the correct timing of sync signals so that a monitor recognizes the signal and displays an image stored on an EEPROM.
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Restoring a 37 Year-Old IBM F Mechanical Keyboard
I wanted to share my journey from start to finish to restore a 1983 IBM Model F XT mechanical keyboard to it's former glory. It includes...
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Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
These are my first impressions of the new Raspberry Pi 400, and my experiences of setting it up as a machine for development and blogging.
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Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi
Learn how to monitor airplane traffic with a Raspberry Pi. Track real-time flight data using PiAware and an ADS-B dongle. Simple setup for aviation enthusiasts!
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Designing Raspberry Pi 400
Raspberry Pi 400's designer, Simon Martin, pens a few words on the making of our latest computer
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Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review
Today Raspberry Pi Trading announced the Raspberry Pi 400, the latest in the series of small education-focused computers that started with the original Raspberry Pi in 2012. For years, people have come up with creative ways to hack a Pi into keyboards, like the Original Pi in an old Mitsumi keyboard, or the Pi 3 A+ in…
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Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
Raspberry Pi 400 is your complete personal computer, built into a compact keyboard. It's our most powerful and easy-to-use computer yet.
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5Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
tl;dr: I successfully got the Intel I340-T4 4x Gigabit NIC working on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, and combining all the interfaces (including the internal Pi interface), I could get up to 3.06 Gbps maximum sustained throughput. Update: I was able to boost things a bit to get 4.15 Gbps! Check out my video here…
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Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile
MIT Media Lab graduate student Jack Forman developed DefeXtiles, a tulle-like textile made from polymer filament, by controlling a common 3D printing defect.
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The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched
Today, SiFive introduces the new HiFive platform for professional RISC-V developers, the HiFive Unmatched! The HiFive Unmatched enables developers to create the RISC-V-based software they need for RISC-V platforms. From real-time operating systems to custom Linux distributions, and the compilers, libraries, and…
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AMD to Acquire Xilinx
A AMD oferece soluções de computação adaptativa e de alto desempenho de liderança para promover IA de data center, PCs com IA, dispositivos de borda inteligentes, jogos e muito mais.
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iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review
Testing the new iPhone 12 Pro in (and over) Glacier National Park.
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Geeking Out with UEFI
Some people may think some of my past posts get into the weeds, exploring the technical depths of Windows Autopilot, Intune, Windows 10, ConfigMgr, etc. But I would say those generally only g…
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Porting Firecracker to a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)
Since we got our hands on the new Raspberry Pi 4, we started exploring how various virtualization technologies behave on the board. First thing we tried is how to run Nabla on it and how it compares to native KVM. Next thing we wanted to try is firecracker, the notorious micro-VMM that Amazon Lambda & Fargate run…
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Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors
I recently wrote a post to announce the availability of M6g, R6g and C6g families of instances on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). These instances offer better cost-performance ratio than their x86 counterparts. They are based on AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores…
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The Elroy Lamp: A transparent LCD lamp (2019)
Elroy is a table lamp with a unique feature -- the shade can dynamically change to a new style or pattern from your phone or web browser.
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