Collaborate Disseminate
Although for most generations alive today the era of microcontrollers (MCU) feels like it starts somewhere with the Intel 8051 and AVR MCUs, the history of these self-contained computing marvels …read more Continue reading The Early History Of The Microcontroller: It Came From Texas
On January 10th Bambu Lab published a blog post in which they address the issue of installing custom firmware on your Bambu Lab X1 3D printer. This comes hot on …read more Continue reading Bambu Lab To Allow Installing Open Firmware After Signing Waiver
Despite the name, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has very little to do with the original Bluetooth, other than its use of the same 2.4 GHz frequencies. This is where [Dmitry] …read more Continue reading Faking Bluetooth LE With An nRF24L01+ Module
The Hobbes OS/2 Archive is a large collection of OS/2 software that has been publicly available for many years, even as OS/2 itself has mostly faded into obscurity. Yet now …read more Continue reading The Hobbes OS/2 Archive Will Shut Down In April
After Microsoft announced in April of 2023 that they’d cease selling branded peripherals – including keyboards and mice – as part of its refocusing on Surface computers and accessories, there …read more Continue reading Not Dead Yet: Microsoft Peripherals Get Licensed To Onward Brands
So-called ‘smart home’ appliances and gadgets have become an ever-more present thing the past years, with nary a coffeemaker, AC unit or light bulb for sale today that doesn’t have …read more Continue reading How To Build A Fully Offline Smart Home, Or Why You Should Not
Recently [Michael] over at the [Teaching Tech] YouTube channel got access to the X1Plus firmware, and takes us through what it may mean for Bambu Lab X1 owners. X1Plus is …read more Continue reading X1Plus: Open Source Bambu Lab X1 Firmware
It’s often said that the best science experiments are the ones which do not require any special devices or ingredients, which makes the use of what naturally comes out of …read more Continue reading How to Refrigerate With Urine
We commonly tend to associate lathes with the Industrial Revolution, when metalworking shifted largely from blacksmiths to machinists, but the use of lathes is much older than that. As [Chris] …read more Continue reading World’s First Precision Lathe: Indispensable When Constructing The Antikythera Mechanism
In order for a fire to sustain itself, it needs three things: fuel, heat, and oxygen, with the disruption of just one of those causing the fire to extinguish. Water, …read more Continue reading Using Sound Waves As A Fire Extinguisher