Collaborate Disseminate
In an excellent example of one of the most overused XKCD images, the libxml2 library has for a little while lost its only maintainer, with [Nick Wellnhofer] making good on …read more Continue reading libxml2 Narrowly Avoids Becoming Unmaintained
A lot of claims have been made about the purported benefits of adding chopped carbon fiber to FDM filaments, but how many of these claims are actually true? In the …read more Continue reading Why Chopped Carbon Fiber in FDM Prints is a Contaminant
Recently, [Jeff Geerling] dropped into the bad press feeding frenzy around Sipeed’s NanoKVM, most notably because of a ‘hidden’ microphone that should have no business on a remote KVM solution. …read more Continue reading The ‘Hidden’ Microphone inside the Sipeed NanoKVM
Flux is one of those things that you cannot really use too much of during soldering, as it is essential for cleaning the surface and keeping oxygen out, but as …read more Continue reading Testing 8 Solder Flux Pastes After Flux Killed a GeForce2 GTS
Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This began …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the Intel 8087 Stack Circuitry
It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat controversial. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to …read more Continue reading Automatically Remove AI Features From Windows 11
The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator. The devil here is, of course, …read more Continue reading Building And Testing A Turbine Driven Hydro Generator
When you start an STM32 MCU with its default configuration, its CPU will tick along at a leisurely number of cycles on the order of 8 to 16 MHz, using …read more Continue reading Bare Metal STM32: Increasing the System Clock and Running Dhrystone
Anyone with an inkling of interest in super-sized remote control aircraft probably has at least seen some of the mind-blowing projects that [Ramy RC] has worked on over the years, with …read more Continue reading Building a Flying Blended Wing Body Aircraft Prototype
With the availability of increasingly cheaper equipment, welding has become far more accessible these days. While this is definitely a plus, it also comes with the elephant-sized asterisk that as …read more Continue reading The Lethal Danger of Combining Welding and Brake Cleaner