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FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing
Q1. Did you see Microsoft’s announcement?A. Yes, thanks, you can stop emailing to ask! Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak was even kind enough to give me a personal briefing a few weeks ago. Yest…
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OpenSCAD is kinda neat
Earlier this year I designed a very basic box/organizer for AA and AAA batteries in Autodesk Fusion, making it parameterized so that by changing a few…
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The Secret Life of Circuits
Some pics, endorsements, and the reason the book exists in the first place.
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Antenna designer writes about the iPhone 4
I received a phone call today from PC Magazine. They were running a story on the new Apple iPhone 4, specifically the reports (PC Mag, Gizmodo, Engadget) that people are experiencing decreased reception on their cell phone when they hold the phone by the metal frame.
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Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor
TLDR: My Macbook Pro 16" is hot and noisy when connected to a 2560x1440p60 monitor, even when idle and the lid is closed. This article…
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Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives
This is the Compute Blade, and I'm test driving it in a four-node cluster: I'm testing the Dev version, and @Merocle from Uptime Lab sent four Blades, a 3D-printed 4-bay case (a metal 1U rackmount enclosure is in the works), and two fan modules. He's been testing 40 of these in a rack at Jetbrains for months, and…
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Apple AirTag Bug Enables ‘Good Samaritan’ Attack
The new $30 AirTag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons to scan it with a mobile phone and discover its owner’s phone number if the AirTag has been set to lost mode. But according to new research, this same feature can be abused to redirect the Good…
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Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad
Designing, printing, and building a one-handed gaming keypad
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Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller
Dmitry.GR: How to reverse engineer a completely undocumented microcontroller. From nothing to a full SDK in one week flat!
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Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.
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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
I've been following WisdPi's development of various 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for the past couple years. They use newer Realtek Ethernet chips, which sometimes have performance quirks—most frequently encountered under Linux. In today's video, I tested the new WisdPi 10G Ethernet Expansion Card for Framework…
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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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iPhone Duo
Apple today introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone.
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The Modos Paper Laptop
At Modos, we want to give you the tools and space to focus on what truly matters in life. That’s why we created the Modos Paper Laptop: the world's first e-ink laptop designed for reading, writing, and thinking in a distraction and eyestrain-free environment.
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Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air
Oxygen candles are used as a backup source of breathable air inside refuge chambers, making them ideal for emergency situations underground.
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New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
We’re introducing our third-generation family of hardware products made by Google, including Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Pixel Slate and Google Home Hub.
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iPhone 17e
Apple today announced the new iPhone 17e, a powerful and affordable addition to the iPhone 17 lineup.
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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…