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Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb
Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
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Why do USB-C hubs still have USB 2.0 ports? (2021)
[If USB2.0 is too boring, learn about the details of 50 different Thunderbolt-4 docks – yep you read that right, there are 50 different models – find out which ones are identical inside…
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Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
The machine is now capable of running un-attended for hours on end, which is a huge milestone. No more jamming or other nastiness that causes me to interrupt a run. Many little things contributed to this, I’ve looked at all the mechanics and figured out all the little things that went wrong one by one and have come up…
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MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
iPads should be radically touch only, and MacBooks should be keyboard-first
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The Intel Split
It appears that Intel’s partnership with TSMC is much larger than it first seemed; the implications for Intel as whole are massive.
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Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
I will be pleased if you subscribe to my Instagram (instagram.com/uptime.lab) and Twitter (twitter.com/Merocle). I do not post any spam — only my own projects and quite rarely. Your subscription is essential to me! If you're wondering how it can be used and why, please look at the introduction in the first article…
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A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset
In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human intelligence: "If, in your office, you as an ...
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Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype
I found this strange looking device at Goodwill yesterday. Originally, owing perhaps to the bright blue color, I thought it was some sort of educational or kids device. It had no branding on it, so…
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Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings
Posted by anaglyph under DIY , Gadgets , Hokum , Science , Skeptical Thinking , WooWoo [80] Comments
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Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album
For Christmas, I gave my parents this e-ink picture frame (built from an old e-reader) that cycles through photos from a shared iCloud photo album:
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AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted
How a modern AVX instruction shares a similar design with a 1985 blitter chip, by Arnaud Carré
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Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development
After several years with my Dell Latitude E6400 I was searching for a new, more powerful Linux machine for my coding and performance tweaking tasks. And although the Dell XPS line sounded interesti…
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My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
Some of you have asked about my exact Hackintosh spec, so here it is. I built my Hackintosh in March/April 2014, after finally deciding that the Mac Pro was too expensive and didn’t really fit my needs. The spec I was going to go for was an 8-core model, with 32 gigs of RAM, a 1 TB flash
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555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC
This article is translated into Vietnamese at: Bên trong chíp định thời 555 . If you've played around with electronic circuits, you prob...
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Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
How I reverse engineered an ESP32-based smart home device to gain remote control access and integrate it with Home Assistant.
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AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review
Surprising sound let down by serious comfort problems
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RISC-V Is Sloooow
143 vs 36 minutes is far too big difference
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Making a Physical Product
Jon Paul Wheatley makes products, software, and balls.
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Learning basic electronics by building fireflies
From missing real fireflies to learning basic electronics and building my own blinking "fireflies"
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Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time , I hinted at having rescued a lost piece of obscure Apple software history from an old 160 MB Conner hard drive that had its head stuck in the parked position. This post is going to be all about it. It’s the tale of a tad bit of an obsession, what felt like a…