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AppleTV 6.0 requires Fairplay-DRM Airplay Sources
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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 4,806 posts.
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A look at power on the new M1 Max
The ramblings and experiments of a software engineer and tech enthusiast based in Dublin.
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Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page
Windows 7 ESU extended support for all Windows 7 users out there!
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IBM Quantum System Two
IBM kicked off the IBM Quantum Summit 2022, announcing new breakthrough advancements in quantum hardware and software and outlining its pioneering vision for quantum-centric supercomputing.
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Failing to reach DDR4 bandwidth
Unum builds the Search, Storage, and Networking engines powering the modern data stack. Deployed on 100M+ devices, our technology serves DBMS unicorns and frontier AI labs.
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Replacing the bad flyback transformer in Apple's Studio Display 17"
Content Warning: usage of Dremel, bad soldering, bad desoldering, underestimating high voltage, Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field
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The Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2 (2015)
Thirty years after its launch in 1987, a CM-2 was acquired by MoMA NY. It is only on display in selected shows - its inaugural exhibit was in " Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989"
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Pi 5 overclocking: Silicon Lottery
Silicon lottery. Now that the Raspberry Pi 5s been readily available (at least in most regions) for a few months, more people started messing with clocks, trying to get the most speed possible out of their Pi 5s. Unlike the Pi 4, the Pi 5 is typically comfortable at 2.6 or even 2.8 GHz, and some Pi 5s can hit 3.0 GHz…
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Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
UC San Diego researchers have discovered the root cause of why lithium metal batteries fail, challenging a long-held belief in the field. The study presents new ways to boost battery performance and brings research a step closer to incorporating lithium anodes into rechargeable batteries.
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Can you figure out how this single part boost converter works?
If you think this is easy, then I think you are missing something. This is hard. You need to know your hardware intimately to figure this one out.
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Introducing raspberrypi.com
We're launching a new website dedicated to Raspberry Pi computers, and new social media channels focused on our educational initiatives.
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Battery-free self-powered sensor harvests magnetic energy
MIT researchers designed a self-powering, battery-free, energy-harvesting sensor. Using the framework they developed, they produced a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magnetic field that exists in the open air around a wire.
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Meshtastic: A Review
The Meshtastic is my solarpunk dream—a cheap, encrypted, offgrid communicator. But the project is still in the alpha stages (and it shows).
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Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 6: the control registers
The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer (1983) was the classic synthesizer in 1980s pop music. It uses a technique called FM synthesis to produ...
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When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95
Connecting a Garmin GPS 95 to a Flipper Zero, the serial adventures along the way, and finding the Netherland's first Geocache.
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Rethinking software testing: perspectives from the world of hardware (2019)
The conventional view of Software Testing The hardware and software worlds may seem poles apart, and in many ways, they indeed are. But there’s a wealth of knowledge that each can learn from the ot…
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Stanford engineers present new chip that ramps up AI computing efficiency
Stanford engineers created a more efficient and flexible AI chip, which could bring the power of AI into tiny edge devices.
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Ideas for Raspberry Pi Projects
 Ideas for your Raspberry Pi!The chances are you have a Raspberry Pi or there's one on the way to you, n
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IllumiRoom: Peripheral Projected Illusions for Interactive Experiences
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system from Microsoft Research. It augments the area surrounding a television screen with projected visualizations to enhance the traditional living room entertainment experience. Read the CHI 2013 Best-Paper: IllumiRoom: Peripheral Projected Illusions for Interactive Experiences (7.6…
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Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer
Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the f...
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Modchips of the State
Collection of my projects and hacks.
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Inside the ALU of the 8085 microprocessor
The arithmetic-logic unit is a fundamental part of any computer, performing addition, subtraction, and logic operations, but how it works i...
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Tiny FORTH from scratch in 1 week (bootloader-based Arduino UNO, 2K of RAM)
Building a tiny FORTH for an Arduino UNO in one week