Collaborate Disseminate
Although off-the-shelf breadboards are plentiful and cheap, they almost always seem to use the same basic design. Although you can clumsily reassemble most of them by removing the voltage rail …read more Continue reading Using 3D Printed Breadboards to Accommodate Wide Boards
Because size matters when it comes to statistics, [Will Prowse] decided to not just bank on his handful of failed Battle Born LFP batteries when it came to documenting their …read more Continue reading Performing an Autopsy on 15 Dead Battle Born LFP Batteries
With more and more sensors being crammed into the consumer devices that many of us wear every day, the question of where medical devices begin and end, and how they …read more Continue reading What the FDA’s 2026 Wellness Device Update Means for Wearables
Although infrastructure like a 19th-century pumping station generally tends to be quietly decommissioned and demolished, sometimes you get enough people looking at such an object and wondering whether maybe it’d …read more Continue reading How Volunteers Saved a Victorian-Era Pumping Station From Demolition
These days, you can get fakes, bootlegs, and similar for just about anything. While a fake handbag isn’t such a big deal, in the case of a DIN-rail power supply, …read more Continue reading Inside a Fake Mean Well DIN-rail PSU
In the olden days, an administrator password on a BIOS was a mere annoyance, one quickly remedied by powering off the system and pulling its CMOS battery or moving a …read more Continue reading Removing the BIOS Administrator Password on a ThinkPad Takes Timing
Back in the 1980s, your options for writing your own code and games were rather more limited than today. This also mostly depended on what home computer you could get …read more Continue reading Software Development on the Nintendo Famicom in Family BASIC
It’s no real secret that modern-day cars are basically a collection of computers on wheels, which also means that we get all the joys of debugging complex computer systems and …read more Continue reading Can a Scan Tool Kill a Car?
ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters. In a recent video,[Henrique Ferrolho] demonstrated that …read more Continue reading Real-Time 3D Room Mapping with ESP32, VL53L5CX Sensor and IMU
The lovely thing about the x86 architecture is its decades of backwards compatibility, which makes it possible to run 1990s operating systems on modern-day hardware, with relatively few obstacles in …read more Continue reading Windows 98 on a 2020 ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 Laptop