Collaborate Disseminate
When Raspberry Pi released the Pi 500, as essentially an RPi 5 integrated into a chiclet keyboard, there were rumors based on the empty spots on the PCB that a …read more Continue reading The New Raspberry Pi 500+: Better Gaming with Less Soldering Required
Perpetual motion devices are either a gag, a scam, or as in the case of this particular toy that [Big Clive] bought on AliExpress, a rather fascinating demonstration of a …read more Continue reading Surprisingly Refined Perpetual Motion Device Teardown
For the past two-and-half years Canadian consumer testing outfit RTINGS has been running an accelerated aging experiment across a large number of TVs available to a North-American audience. In their …read more Continue reading RTINGS 10-Year Equivalent TV Longevity Update With Many Casualties
Until the 2000s vacuum tubes practically ruled the roost. Even if they had surrendered practically fully to semiconductor technology like integrated circuits, there was no escaping them in everything from …read more Continue reading The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised
What do you do when you find a ISA Sound Blaster 2.0 card in a pile of scrap? Try to repair the damage on it to give it a second …read more Continue reading Reviving a Scrapped Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA Soundcard
It’s becoming somewhat of a running gag that any device or object will be made ‘smart’ these days, whether it’s a phone, TV, refrigerator, home thermostat, headphones or glasses. This …read more Continue reading Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses and the New Glassholes
The PIXO Aspire is a roughly $35 USD vape that can almost play DOOM, with [Aaron Christophel] finding that the only thing that realistically stops it from doing so is …read more Continue reading When Low SRAM Keeps the DOOM off Your Vape
Japan’s Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki was launched on May 21, 2010, and started its active mission in 2015 after an initial orbital insertion failure. Since that time, Akatsuki has continuously observed …read more Continue reading Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki’s Mission Has Ended
Fnirsi is one of those brands that seem to pop up more and more often, usually for portable oscilloscopes and kin. Their IPS3608 bench power supply is a bit of …read more Continue reading Fnirsi IPS3608: A Bench Power Supply With Serious Flaws
After [Ross] from FauxHammer miniature model fame got lured into reviewing laser engravers and similar via the Bambu Lab H2D’s laser module, he found himself getting slightly nervous about the …read more Continue reading Fire Extinguishers, Optical Density Ratings and Safely Using Home Lasers