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Just give me a simple CPU and some I/O ports
Back when I started programming computers came with circuit diagrams and listings of their firmware. The early machines I used like the Sha...
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DIY: Cheap, ultra low-power radios that communicate over thousands of miles
QRSS is a term used in ham radio to mean "very slow speed morse code". QRPp means "using a very low power radio transmitter". What happens when you combine
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Twibright Optar – OPTical ARchiver – a codec for encoding data on paper
Data archiving codec for paper, laser printer and scanner
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Hacker builds working 1/10th scale Cray 1
No hackerspace is complete without it's own rockin' supercomputer - and when a Gibson isn't available, a Cray-1 will have to do. My 1/10-scale,
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A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is good, but not quite the best (2012)
When you buy a USB charger, how do you know if you're getting a safe, high-quality charger for your money? You can't tell from the outside...
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The Capacitor Plague
I woke up from a nap to a loud pop and a smell of burning plastic. The source turned out to be one of the most precious and important to me digital devices: a ReadyNAS NV+, a small silver box with over a terabyte of hard drives that store my backups, music, and photos. Network attached storage (NAS) is an engineering…
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How to crack a master lock
Selamat datang di situs Toto Macau terpercaya dengan link resmi serta akses login terbaru untuk kemudahan daftar akun secara cepat dan praktis. Nikmati pilihan pasaran Toto Macau terlengkap dengan update result dan data terbaru yang selalu tersedia untuk Anda.
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14 Megapixel, Six Monitor Ubuntu Karmic Setup
I recently took the opportunity to reboot several pieces of my technology stack. The coolest perhaps is my new 6-monitor machine running Ubuntu Karmic. It is nontrivial to be comfortable that everything (CPU, GPUs, monitors, OS) will play nice together so I’ll detail exactly what I did so that others can repeat it…
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Space Shuttle computer has 1MB of RAM
NASA's space shuttle was controlled by a computer running on only 1 megabyte of RAM. The hardware was over 30 years old during its last flight.
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Marco Arment: The new MacBook Air
The new MacBook Air was released today, and it’s a hell of an upgrade. It got much better and it’s at an extremely compelling price.
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Don't Bet on Moore Saving Your Ass
Over on the 37signals blog , DHH writes Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding . His argument is basically that if you continually delay fixing your data storage and retrieval layer, Moore's Law will be there to save our ass--over and over again.
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Tempest: Transmit Radio Waves via a PC Video Card with No Extra Hardware
the quality of the music is not exactly what you are used to :-) but at least it works!
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ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm ARM vs. Intel CPU Comparison
One of the nicer perks I have here at Cloudflare is access to the latest hardware, long before it even reaches the market. Until recently I mostly played with Intel hardware.
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Oh look, an iPad
This morning, Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with new internal components, including new processors, new graphics chips, a higher-resolution screen option on the 15” (finally), and bigger batteries.
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A true single-sided circuit board.
In electronics, it is common to talk about single sided circuit boards. The most common type is a circuit board that only has printed wiring on one side, and components on the other side. There are also surface-mount boards, where all the wiring and components sit on one side. But aren’t all of those really just…
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Blu-Ray Still Blows
Some time ago I wrote an entry that got some attention about the Blu-ray format and why I refuse to release anything on it. It’d be nice to release the text adventure documentary in what Blu-…
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In which I switch on a 30 year old computer and it just works
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting my parents and getting out an old computer. One of the first computers I used a lot was the Shar...
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Joel on Solid State Disks
One of the FogBugz developers complained that compiling was pretty slow (about 30 seconds), which was leading to a lot of sword fights in the hallway. He asked if it would be OK if someone spent a …
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How To build a radio in a POW camp -- the real life King Rat
QRP(Low Power Amateur Radio)
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Robot hand ties knots, dribbles a ball, and uses tweezers (video)
A few blogs are passing around videos of the Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. However, the video being passed around is slight on details. Meanwhile, their video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an…
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Johnny Lee (of wiimote hack fame) was involved in Natal
If you've been wondering why my project blog has been pretty quiet, I can finally say it is because I have been helping Xbox with Project Na...
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Dark Flash Photography - UV/IR Flash Instead of Visible Light
Dark Flash Photography To be presented at SIGGRAPH 2009, New Orleans. Download PDF Dilip Krishnan Rob Fergus Vision, Learning and Graphics Group Computer Science Department Courant Institute of Mat…