Collaborate Disseminate
If there’s one constant with software developers, it is that sometimes they get bored. At these times, they tend to think dangerous thoughts, usually starting with ‘What if…’. Next you …read more Continue reading Hello World in C Without Linking in Libraries
One characteristic of adding PV solar to homes is a massive increase in high-voltage and high-current DC installations. With this comes a need for suitable breakers, but without the requisite …read more Continue reading Testing Cheap DC Breakers and How to Not Start Fires
Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains naughty code. Unfortunately it’s generally rather easy to detect whether or …read more Continue reading Making a Virtual Machine Look like Real Hardware to Malware
Hydraulic gear pumps are deceptively simple: just two gears rotating together, forcing the hydraulic oil from one side to the other where the teeth don’t meet, and thus providing the …read more Continue reading Building a Hydraulic Gear Pump Isn’t So Easy
In an era where running a website without HTTPS is shunned, and everyone wants you to encrypt your DNS queries, you’d expect that the telecommunications back-ends are secured tightly as …read more Continue reading Satellite Snooping Reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data
It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold as. Outside of dedicated platforms like Mouser, Digikey …read more Continue reading Identifying Fake Small-Signal Transistors
Following up on the recent test of a set of purported ADS1115 ADCs sourced from Amazon [James Bowman] didn’t just test a genuine Ti part, but also dug into some …read more Continue reading The Great ADS1115 Pricing and Sourcing Mystery
The reason why large language models are called ‘large’ is not because of how smart they are, but as a factor of their sheer size in bytes. At billions of …read more Continue reading Making the Smallest and Dumbest LLM with Extreme Quantization
Having a gadget’s battery nestled snugly within the bowels of a device has certain advantages. It finally solves the ‘no batteries included’ problem, and there is no more juggling of …read more Continue reading Built-In Batteries: a Daft Idea With an Uncertain Future
Although nuclear fusion is exceedingly easy to achieve, as evidenced by desktop fusors, the real challenges begin to pop up whenever you try to sustain a plasma for extended periods …read more Continue reading UK’s MAST Upgrade Tokamak Stabilizes Plasma with Edge Magnetic Fields