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It takes quite a bit of effort to get a 0 out of 10 repairability score from iFixit, but in-ears like Apple’s AirPods are well on course for a clean …read more Continue reading Apple’s Continuing Failing Repair Score With the AirPods Pro 3
The idea of using the Apple II home computer for digital photography purposes may seem somewhat daft considering that this is not a purpose that they were ever designed for, …read more Continue reading Optimizing a QuickTake Image Decoder for the Apple II’s 6502
Recently [Anthony Francis-Jones] decided to take a closer look at the inhaler that his son got prescribed for some mild breathing issues, specifically to teardown the mechanical counter on it. …read more Continue reading Simple Counter Mechanism in an Asthma Inhaler
Industrial robots like robotic arms are basically everywhere, albeit usually out of the public’s eye in factories. This also means that they get replaced and scrapped all the time, making …read more Continue reading Open Source Controller for Old and Expensive Industrial Robots
We have seen many scam USB chargers appear over the years, with a number of them being enthusiastically ripped apart and analyzed by fairly tame electrical engineers. Often these are …read more Continue reading When USB Charger Marketing Claims are Technically True
Usually databases are treated primarily as fairly dumb data storage systems, but they can be capable of much more. Case in point the PostgreSQL database and its – Ada-based – …read more Continue reading Implementing a Kalman Filter in PostgreSQL to Smooth GPS Data
The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to …read more Continue reading On 3D Scanners and Giving Kinects a New Purpose In Life
Recently [Faith Ekstrand] announced on Mastodon that Mesa was updating its contributor guide. This follows a recent AI slop incident where someone submitted a massive patch to the Mesa project …read more Continue reading Mesa Project Adds Code Comprehension Requirement After AI Slop Incident
Theoretically USB-C is a pretty nifty connector, but the reality is that it mostly provides many exciting new ways to make your device not work as expected. With the gory …read more Continue reading Segger’s Awkward USB-C Issue With the J-Link Compact Debugger
Can you play DOOM in Discord? At first glance, that may seem rather nonsensical, as Discord is a proprietary chat service and neither a hardware device nor something else that …read more Continue reading Playing DOOM In Discord With a Special Image URL