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Hello and welcome back to The Cool Blog. I've been meaning to write more but I had these things called finals and then I had to move home for the summer and then I got addicted to Satisfactory again and yeah. Anyway I'm back and time for me to share a project of mine that I've been working on since like March.
Apple today announced a new MacBook Pro lineup featuring the all-new family of M3 chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max.
This is the first in (maybe) a series of “Tales From Tech Support”, which are true stories from my point of view. I’ll probably only post these on a Friday. In the 1990s, I worked as a contractor for a large, well-established accounting firm. We’d often buy new equipment and unpack it at the helpdesk, throw away all…
BadUSB attacks have been a threat for years, but is the USB-C dock sitting on your desk the latest threat in disguise?
[Note to the impatient: to try out my beamforming simulation, which produced the above image, visit my beamlab test page - ideally in a brow...
I made one of those e-ink weather displays that you see on tech blogs and hacker news sometimes. It can display the current weather, the temperature and precipitation forecast for the rest of the week, and my current and upcoming tasks from Todoist. It's powered by a couple NiMH AA …
Learn how CPUs work, and discover Apple’s underrated competitive advantage.
I wanted to get a music streaming server running as I have in the past but with the scarcity of RasberryPi’s my I needed to try something new. I had a Samsung Galaxy S7 that had been taking up space in my junk drawer and this post is my journey to give it a new task.
We’ve written previously about how to configure WiFi and SSH on your Raspberry Pi without having to connect any peripheral devices (headless). As long as you’re comfortable on the command line, this makes it much easier to work with your Pi.
Learn how RTX Video Super Resolution uses AI to improve streaming video in latest Game Ready Driver for GeForce RTX 40 and 30 Series GPUs.
I got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Converter . According to the marketing copy it “is the definitive solution for playback of new 4K HDCP 2.2 encoded content on 4K displays with the old HDCP 1.4 standard.”
While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip. Since the chip was bad, I decapped it ...
Article about the philosophy of custom made computers without displays, usually known as decks.
We bypass read-out protection on the CC2510
A dive into what x86 instruction are decoded into various processors, to determine the truth of the idea that they're just RISC-like internally.
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Puya's 10-cent PY32 series is complicating the RISC-V narrative and has me doubting I'll ever reach for an 8-bit part again.
Roadrunner is a reusable VTOL autonomous air vehicle with twin turbojet engines, high-subsonic speed, modular payloads, and AI-driven autonomy for versatile air defense missions.
In a fun-filled deep dive into a Philip's Hue Color light bulb, I disassembled, analyzed, and ultimately restored it to working order. Over the course of the hack, I dismantled the bulb’s interior,...
What are "signal reflections", really? And do they matter in circuit design?
My $200, 12-year-old Thinkpad has outlasted two high-end Macbooks
Robots are quickly becoming part of our everyday lives, but they’re often only programmed to perform specific tasks well. While harnessing recent advances in AI could lead to robots that could help in many more ways, progress in building general-purpose robots is slower in part because of the time needed to collect…
Developed at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies, a new robot can autonomously choose from a variety of motions to move through a complex environment.
Effortless upstream Linux integration, powerful performance optimization, running AOSP with Mainline and last but not least continued collaboration
Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the temperature this morning:
