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BMW F Series Gear Selector, Part Two: Breakthrough
At the end of Part One , I found myself staring at this BMW F20 GWS ( Gangwahlschalter - gear selector switch - thanks to everyone who helped dig up the German name) that I wanted to adapt into an Electric Vehicle conversion.
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Introducing multitasking to Arduino
Introducing multitasking to Arduino: learn how to run several tasks at once in your sketches and keep your code responsive.
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Rust on Espressif chips – 15-07-2022
Scott Mabin's blog
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Creating a pick and place control board with the RP2040
A look into the hardware design of Starfish
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RISC in 2022
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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I Love My PinePhone
An attempt to document my experiences and rationale for wanting to use a PinePhone, as well as my thoughts on mobile Linux in general.
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How is portable AM radio possible?
If AM radio antennas were as long as a quarter wavelength of the carrier signal, you'd need an antenna as long as a football field.
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Ultrasonic Payments
Experimenting with ultrasonic data transmission in JavaScript as a payment method.
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A 74xx-Defined Radio (2021)
Video Appetizer TLDR I built a shortwave radio receiver from scratch using only cheap and easily available components, i.e. standard transistors, op-amps and 74xx logic chips. No typical radio part…
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A guide to getting started with embedded systems
In this article, I share a beginner friendly guide to learning the basics of embedded systems and how they work. I talk about micontrollers, electronics, and software. I also share my motivation for working on embedded systems.
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I decided to build a nine-bit computer
The first nerdy dispatch from my Quixotic Hardware Project, QIXOTE-1
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Using a Canon EOS camera as a webcam in Debian
Learn how to use your Canon EOS camera as a webcam on Debian Linux with secure boot enabled. Step-by-step guide for installing dependencies, signing the v4l2loopback module, and using the camera in applications. Works with many camera brands including Canon, Fuji, HP, Kodak, Nikon, Pentax, Sanyo, and Sony.
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Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)
When I discovered Google Fi six months ago, I thought to myself, “Finally, a phone service that accomplishes everything I need at a…
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The Oceanic+ app comes to Apple Watch Ultra
Today, the Oceanic+ app comes to Apple Watch Ultra, turning Apple’s most rugged watch into a fully capable, easy-to-use dive computer.
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More than you cared to know about PC fans
Fans, an active cooling element, move air in a system. Heat must be removed from the site of its production, and from the system as a whole. A fan increases heat convection with surrounding air via airflow. Air is at its highest pressure immediately in front of the fan, and at lowest pressure immediately behind it.
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Attacking Titan M with Only One Byte
Following our presentation at Black Hat USA, in this blog post we provide some details on CVE-2022-20233, the latest vulnerability we found on Titan M, and how we exploited it to obtain code execution on the chip.
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How do transistors work, anyway?
The internet is littered with explanations of how transistors work. Most of them don't really explain anything.
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Pcmcia Pico W Card
My fascination with PCMCIA cards was created out of “necessity”. Most of my retro computing interest revolves around networking, and I wanted something that could natively attach to modern Wifi networks without the need to maintain an old linksys router just for my retro computers. There are many ways to do this, I…
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Linux 6.1 on NanoPi R4S – On fixing SD-card support, Heisenbugs and Rabbit Holes
This little ARM64 single-board computer dragged me into the world of device trees, voltage regulators, and one of the worst Heisenbugs I encountered so far.
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Testing Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023
Last week Microsoft started selling their $599 Windows Dev Kit 2023, formerly known as 'Project Volterra'. I got my hands on one after a little bit of a shipping delay, and promptly started tearing it down to see what's inside. You can click here to browse the entire Twitter thread where I posted pictures of the box…
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Cree releases LEDs designed for horticulture
💡 Upgrade output and efficiency of two-channel luminaires by 6%💡 System performance up to 3.25 PPF/W💡 Advanced spectrum optimized for horticulture💡 Reduce complicated spectral analysis💡 Standard lead times, samples available now Photophyll™ Select for Horticulture Applications Available on XLamp® XP-G3 and J Series®…
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Socialist Romania Computer Chips
The socialist bloc of countries that arose after World War II was not a monolithic entity, it had significant country and cultural differences. A number of countries stood apart, one of them was socialist Romania. The leadership of Romania pursued a relatively free domestic and foreign policy, while remaining within…
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Explore Matter, the new smart home standard, in Home Assistant
On June 15 we're showing how Matter will work and guide you in getting it set up.
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I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer
For over a year now, I use a Raspberry Pi 4 (with 8GB of RAM) as my daily desktop computer. I browse the internet, read and send e-mails, program software, edit photos, create images, watch Youtube videos and play games on it. Without any significant problems.