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Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)

Startups can’t do things the same way big companies do. And that’s a good thing; here’s why. Startups and big companies differ in a lot of ways. When it comes to hardware, the gulf between the two is massive. Early-stage startups are painfully under-financed. This lack of capital makes manu

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Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances

14 November 2022: This blog has been updated to remove the link to the preview form. Last year at AWS re:Invent, Jeff Barr wrote about the exciting availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a new EC2 M1 Mac instance. The introduction of EC2 Mac…

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AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory

Many AWS customers are running memory-intensive big data, caching, and analytics workloads and have been asking us for EC2 instances with ever-increasing amounts of memory. Last fall, I first told you about our plans for the new X1 instance type. Today, we are announcing availability of this instance type with the…

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EEG Cat Ears (2018)

I built mind-controlled ears as a way to learn how to build my own arduino-based designs. Challenges included cable management and designing custom servo hardware to attach to the asymmetrical EEG headset.