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A beginner's guide to split keyboards
Come to the dark side, we have keyboard shaped cookies.
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Adding a fiber link to my home network
Motivation Despite using a FTTH internet connection since 2014, aside from the one fiber uplink, I had always used network gear with 1 Gbit/s links over regular old rj45 cat5(e) cables. I liked the simplicity and uniformity of that setup, but decided it’s time to add at least one fiber connection, to get rid of a…
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Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal
It‘s been a couple of days since a friend of mine dropped his iPhone 12 Pro into the canal in Kreuzberg, Berlin. News made it all around the world by now, being featured on all Apple News pages that exist: AppleInsider , 9to5Mac , The Loop , iPhone Ticker , iMore , Hi Tekno , Mac4Ever , Appgefahren , Macerkopf …
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Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)
Regular readers would probably know that I have a love of batteries, and their associated test equipment. Maybe it was the fact that they were expensive, but pervasive, and my enjoyment as a child …
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Storage for Photographers
There comes a time in every photographer's life when they must ask themselves what to do about all those photo RAWs filling up the tiny-compared-to-spinning-platters SSD on their primary machine.
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Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds
The BBC asked us to have a look at some smart locks for a TV show recently. We didn’t have much prep time, but were genuinely shocked by just how easy this one was to compromise. Usually, we spend time looking at Bluetooth/RF, the mobile app, the API and then move on to hardware. This […]
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FlipperZero: 1 Month Battery Life with Firmware Update
We are proud to announce that starting the firmware version 0.82, your Flipper Zero's battery life will last up to 1 month! It took us 2 years to resolve all firmware issues that prevented Flipper Zero from switching to power-saving mode, resulting in the same power consumption baseline in
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PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon
Looking for sponsorship Apple now ships Macs which are running on an arm64 variant machine with the latest version of MacOS, Big Sur M1. ...
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Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
Get ready for blending on-the-go.
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What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives
Have you ever wondered what your hard drive SMART errors actually mean? Find out what we look at to determine if a drive is about to fail.
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Camera Chase Vehicle
You stumble on a weird robot chassis in an industrial warehouse. Its adorable, enormous and will likely be scrapped.
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Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds
Available for preorder today, new Surface devices and accessories are designed to help you work, learn, connect and play from anywhere The way we work, connect and learn continues to change right in front of us. Our devices have become our window to the world – our office, our school and our social space. To
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Why does FM sound better than AM?
Frequency modulation (FM) is more robust to noise than amplitude modulation (AM) because static itself is primarily a form of amplitude modulation.
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0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced
The Junkyard contest focuses on deprecated systems, responsible disclosure, and meme-worthy exploits. Join us today!
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Using ChatGPT for home automation
In another thrilling adventure with ChatGPT, I endeavored to integrate it with a Raspberry Pi, effectively turning it into my own personal light switch. My custom ChatGPT plugin, sporting just two ...
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Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop
In a previous article, I discussed my intention of Building an E-Ink Laptop . In this article, I want to introduce EI2030 and how we are building an open-source eink laptop and its challenges.
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6 GHz frequency modulated radar
Making a cheap and simple radar with a range of about 100 meters.
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GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better
Configuring PipeWire to make laptop speakers sound better (Bankstown, Convolution/FIR, etc.)
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MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML Text-to-image diffusion models have shown ex...
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Implementing FizzBuzz on an FPGA
I recently started FPGA programming and figured it would be fun to use an FPGA to implement the FizzBuzz algorithm. An FPGA ( Field-Progra...
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Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole
I’m writing this to share my experience adapting to weird keyboards and layouts.
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Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)
Humane AI (Humane, hereafter) combines the mid-2010s failed concept of using a laser projector to project on the body with the early 2000s failed projector phone (something I wrote about in 2013), …
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Life at 800 MHz
We’ve been using a Sony Vaio VGN-P588E for the past few months as our primary personal laptop. This thing’s great; it’s got a small but not uncomfortable keyboard. It’s got a trackpoint, which we absolutely need to keep our hands healthy. Crucially, it’s only 1.5 pounds. We’re disabled in a way that means we’ve got to…
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What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?
CT scans reveal severe battery defects inside Haribo’s 20,000 mAh power bank and earbuds, explaining their quiet removal from Amazon.