Collaborate Disseminate
After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAMDAC’s pins to correct its faulty internal Vref, [Bits und …read more Continue reading Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture
Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate when said pump runs into problems like a dry …read more Continue reading Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device
Generally chemical synthesis involves putting a variety of compounds together in an environment where they will react and self-assemble into the desired product. Direct mechanical manipulation could be significantly more …read more Continue reading Mechanosynthesis of Atomic Carbon Structures Using Inverted-Mode STM
Generally chemical synthesis involves putting a variety of compounds together in an environment where they will react and self-assemble into the desired product. Direct mechanical manipulation could be significantly more …read more Continue reading Mechanosynthesis of Atomic Carbon Structures Using Inverted-Mode STM
As far as things go that you are likely to find during a relaxing walk in the forest, Nintendo 64 game cartridges probably do not rank high on that list. …read more Continue reading Reviving Mystery Nintendo 64 Game Cartridge Found in the Woods
Back in the 1990s IBM had a pretty sizeable presence in the PC market, including its rather spiffy Aptiva series of PCs. Naturally their PCs had to feature heavily in …read more Continue reading IBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996
Even with Amazon’s Echo Show devices running Linux in the form of the Android-derived FireOS, using them for non-Amazon approved purposes can be a chore at best. In the case …read more Continue reading Hacking Amazon Echo Show 8 3rd Gen via UART and eMMC
Sold by German DIY store OBI, the OBI Energy Tracker is a €15 set of two devices, one of which you essentially stick on top of your existing electricity meter. …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering and Self-Hosting the OBI Smart Energy Tracker
The 19th century was an absolutely electrifying era, including in a literal sense. Although the phenomenon of electricity had been known by that time for centuries, actually making it do …read more Continue reading How to Rebuild an 1800s Victorian Leclanché cell
What do you get when you take 8,192 CH570 MCUs, put them on custom PCBs, and write firmware for this interconnected gaggle of cores? In the case of [bitluni]’s project, …read more Continue reading Gluing 8192 MCUs Together to Make a GPU