Collaborate Disseminate
In the past week, a few forum and Reddit threads have popped up, with people stating that JLCPCB has emailed them with a notice, saying their accounts are set up …read more Continue reading JLCPCB Locking Accounts, Mentions “Risky IP Addresses, Activities”
Last time, we built a case for a PCB that handles 100 W of USB-C power, an old project that I’ve long been aiming to revive. It went well, and …read more Continue reading FreeCAD Foray: Good Practices
Over a year ago, we took a look at importing a .step file of a KiCad PCB into FreeCAD, then placing a sketch and extruding it. It was a small …read more Continue reading FreeCAD Foray: From Brick To Shell
Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for that is called Global Positioning System (GPS) – listening to …read more Continue reading GPS And Its Little Modules
It is a good day for design review! Today’s board is the MuBook, a Lattepanda Mu SoM (System-on-Module) carrier from [LtBrain], optimized for a NAS with 4 SATA and 2 …read more Continue reading Design Review: LattePanda Mu NAS Carrier
Smartphones boggle my mind a whole lot – they’re pocket computers, with heaps of power to spare, and yet they feel like the furthest from it. As far as personal …read more Continue reading Smartphone Hackability, or, A Pocket Computer That Isn’t
A hacker’s view on ESD protection can tell you a lot about them. I’ve seen a good few categories of hackers neglecting ESD protection – there’s the yet-inexperienced ones, ones …read more Continue reading Hacker Tactic: ESD Diodes
One of the most frustrating things to me is looking at a freshly-flashed and just powered up single board computer. My goal with them is always getting to a shell …read more Continue reading ZPUI Could Be Your Tiny Embedded GUI
In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a series of open-source projects turned into Beepy, a cool Linux PDA with a lively community. To me, it’s …read more Continue reading Attack Of The Beepy Clones
What could happen when you open-source a hardware project? No, seriously. I hold a fair few radical opinions – one is that projects should be open-source to the highest extent …read more Continue reading The Blackberry Keyboard: How An Open-Source Ecosystem Sprouts