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Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver
What happens inside the WiFi Driver on RISC-V BL602... And how we found the incomplete source code for the driver
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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 391 posts.
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Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug
Research Team: Salman Qazi, Yoongu Kim, Nicolas Boichat, Eric Shiu & Mattias Nissler Today, we are sharing details around our discovery of ...
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Peloton cuts back on Apple Watch support
With one of Peloton's latest updates, they have cut back the ability to connect the Apple Watch with the Bike+ Bootcamp Classes (in addition to it being already disabled for for Strength and Yoga Classes)
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I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
After imagining the perfect drum machine, LA Priest spent years scheming, tweaking, and building his own.
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What’s Wrong With The Honeywell Humidifier
Wirecutter is obsessed with the humidifier that untold numbers of purchasers despise
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It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
A glance at this year's OSDI program shows that Operating Systems are a small niche topic for this conference, not even meriting their own full session. This is unfortunate because good OS design has always been driven by the underlying hardware, and right now that hardware is almost unrecognizable from ten years ago…
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32 Bit Real Estate
Apps on Fly.io all get their own routable IPv4 addresses. Here's what that costs us.
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IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
IBM and Samsung Electronics jointly announced a breakthrough in semiconductor design utilizing a new vertical transistor architecture that demonstrates a path to scaling beyond nanosheet, and has the potential to reduce energy usage by 85 percent.
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FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone transmitters
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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iPhone 13 Pro camera review: Tanzania
The iPhone 13 Pro camera across southern Tanzania — macro, the longer telephoto, and Cinematic mode, from ants to helicopters.
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ESP32-C6, a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC
ESP32-C6 is Espressif’s first low-power and cost-effective Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC, with a 32-bit RISC-V core, for securely connected devices. ESP32-C6 is already certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
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History of the Nautilus loudspeaker
Nautilus is all that and more. Despite being almost 30 years old, this remarkable loudspeaker can still turn heads and win hearts.
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New SiFive RISC-V core P650 with 40% IPC increase
The SiFive Performance P650 processor is expected to be the fastest licensable RISC-V processor IP core in the market, bringing RISC-V into new markets and applications, and will debut to lead partners in Q1 2022.
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Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1
Raspberry Pi RP2040 chips are now on sale, allowing you to build your own projects and products on Raspberry Silicon
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AWS Graviton 3 Instances
We announced the first generation AWS-designed Graviton processor in late 2018, and followed it up with the second generation Graviton2 a year later. Today, AWS customers make use of twelve different Graviton2-powered instances including the new X2gd instances that are designed for memory-intensive workloads. All…
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Freespin: C64 demo running on 1541 floppy drive
Freespin is a Commodore 1541 demo, released in 2021. It runs on the Commodore floppy drive. It is is the first demo on this device.
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Shooting photos with an IMAX projector lens
What the heck is that huge lens? That Crazy Huge Lens is an IMAX Lens. You will be surprised at the cool street portraits we got with this thing. Take a look at how Jay P rigged this with his Canon EOS R camera and the amazing results. This is Jay P Morgan. Today on
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Radio Amateur Copies Signal from Mars-Orbiting Satellite
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Vulnerabilities in chips in 37% of smartphones
Highlights Check Point Research discovered vulnerabilities in MediaTek’s chips, embedded in 37% of all smartphones globally CPR discovered several %
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I’m putting a WiFi router into a wall charger
Read the updated story here
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The Secret Life of Machines
SERIES 1 The Vacuum Cleaner The Washing Machine The Sewing Machine The Refrigerator The Central Heating System The Television
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Alexa leaks private wishlists
This morning, my wife noticed that Alexa was insistently flashing its little blue lights. "Alexa... Notifications?" "You have one notification. An item on your wishlist has dropped in price. The … is now only £…" And that's how my wife found out what I planned to get her for her birthday! What happened to cause this?…
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Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it's ridiculous)
When I heard about Radxa's Taco—a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4-powered NAS/router-in-a-box—I knew what must be done. Load it up with as much SSD storage as I can afford, and see what it can do. And after installing five Samsung 870 QVO 8TB SSDs and one Sabrent Rocket Q NVMe SSD—loading up every drive slot on the Taco…