Collaborate Disseminate
Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these are related to keeping …read more Continue reading Teardown of Boeing 777 Cabin Pressure Control System
Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this …read more Continue reading Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, from Windows XP to Windows 11
Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds, or quietly snickered at …read more Continue reading Qron0b: a Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch
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