Collaborate Disseminate
Currently quartz crystal-based oscillators are among the most common type of clock source in electronics, providing a reasonably accurate source in a cheap and small package. Unfortunately for high accuracy …read more Continue reading Silicon-Based MEMS Resonators Offer Accuracy in Little Space
Despite the Commodore 64 having been out of production for probably longer than many Hackaday readers have been alive, its SID audio chip remains a very popular subject of both …read more Continue reading Exploring Modern SID Chip Substitutes
Everyone loves tiny microcontroller boards, and the ESP32-C3 Super Mini boards are no exception. Unfortunately if you just casually stroll over to your nearest online purveyor of such goods to …read more Continue reading Be Wary of Flash-less ESP32-C3 Super Mini Boards
To the surprise of almost nobody, the unprecedented build-out of datacenters and the equipping of them with servers for so-called ‘AI’ has led to a massive shortage of certain components. …read more Continue reading Surviving the RAM Apocalypse With Software Optimizations
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