Collaborate Disseminate
As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just fine. …read more Continue reading Running Doom on an Apple Lightning to HDMI Adapter
What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and …read more Continue reading Investigating Why Animals Sleep: From Memory Sorting to Waste Disposal
In the process of making everything ‘smart’, it would seem that rings have become the next target, and they keep getting new features. The ring that [Aaron Christophel] got his …read more Continue reading Hacking the 22€ BLE SR08 Smart Ring With Built-In Display
A well-known secret in the world of open source software is that many projects rely on donated hosting for everything from their websites to testing infrastructure. When the company providing …read more Continue reading Freedesktop and Alpine Linux Looking for New Hosting
Soldering irons and their tips come in a wide range of formats and styles, with the (originally Hakko) T12 being one of the more interesting offerings. This is because of …read more Continue reading Understanding the T12 Style Soldering Iron Tip
Large language models (LLMs) are wholly dependent on the quality of the input data with which these models are trained. While suggestions that people eat rocks are funny to you …read more Continue reading Examining the Vulnerability of Large Language Models to Data-Poisoning
The [Denki Otaku] YouTube channel took a look recently at some stepper motors, or ‘stepping motors’ as they’re called in Japanese. Using a 2-phase stepper motor as an example, the …read more Continue reading Stepper Motor Operating Principle and Microstepping Explained
In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under a microscope, and instead does the same in a proverbial manner with the word ‘mainframe’. Although …read more Continue reading How the Main Frame Became the Mainframe: an Etymological Dissertation
Is fire conductive? As ridiculous that may sound at first glance, from a physics perspective the rapid oxidation process we call ‘fire’ produces a lot of substances that can reduce …read more Continue reading Is Fire Conductive Enough To Power a Lamp?
Crystal oscillators are incredibly useful components, but they come with one little snag: their oscillation is temperature-dependent. For many applications the relatively small deviation is not a problem, but especially …read more Continue reading Inside a Vintage Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator