Collaborate Disseminate
As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes repurposing it somewhat straightforward as long as what you want is …read more Continue reading Jailbreaking the Amazon Echo Show
Just because LEGO Technic is technically a toy doesn’t mean that you cannot do solid engineering with it, like building air-powered engines. After first building a simple air-powered piston engine, …read more Continue reading Making the Fastest LEGO Technic Air-Powered Engine
These days ready-to-use DC-DC converters are everywhere, with some of the cheaper ones even being safe to use without an immediate risk to life and limb(s). This piques one’s curiosity …read more Continue reading Putting a Cheapo 1800W DC-DC Boost Converter to the Test
Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to get to this point. This long history is …read more Continue reading Jon Peddie’s The Graphics Chip Chronicles On Graphics Controller History
Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does contribute to limiting their …read more Continue reading Virus-Based Thermoresponsive Separation of Rare-Earth Elements
Courtesy of the complex routing and network configurations that Cloudflare uses, their engineers like to push the Linux network stack to its limits and ideally beyond. In a blog article …read more Continue reading Escaping the Linux Networking Stack at Cloudflare
Although flying well under the radar of the average Linux user, D-Bus has been an integral part of Linux distributions for nearly two decades and counting. Rather than using faster …read more Continue reading It’s Time To Make A Major Change to D-Bus On Linux
With two cores at 240 MHz and about 8.5 MB of non-banked RAM if you’re using the right ESP32-S3 version, this MCU seems at least in terms of specifications to …read more Continue reading Xcc700: Self-Hosted C Compiler for the ESP32/Xtensa
During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one …read more Continue reading Microsoft’s WebTV is Being Revived by Fans
Until the 2000s, game consoles existed primarily to bring a bit of the gaming arcade experience to homes, providing graphical feats that the average home computer would struggle to emulate. …read more Continue reading Playing a Game of Linux on your Sony Playstation 2