Collaborate Disseminate
Today, we’ll look into yet another standard in the embedded space: MXM. It stands for “Mobile PCI Express Module”, and is basically intended as a GPU interface for laptops with …read more Continue reading MXM: Powerful, Misused, Hackable
Looking to build a laptop all on your own? Check out the Pinkpad, a DIY laptop project that as if appeared out of nowhere, gives you a based on an …read more Continue reading Pinkpad, A DIY Laptop You Must Print In Pink
Building your own handheld gaming console has been a popular project for many years, but recently it has become significantly easier to get a lot of power into a small …read more Continue reading Using a Framework Mainboard for a Custom Gaming Handheld
In what’s perhaps one of the most impressive laptop reverse engineering posts in recent memory, [Andrey Konovalov] brings us an incredibly detailed story of how he’s discovered and successfully enabled …read more Continue reading ThinkPad X1 Carbon Turned USB Device Through Relentless Digging
The phenomenon of prison electronics is by now relatively well-documented, with striking transparent radios, televisions, and kin easy to recognize. Yet what about prison laptops? As it turns out, these …read more Continue reading Deep Dive Into a Prison Laptop
You might remember that KiCad 7 came out this February, with a multitude of wonderful features. One of them was particularly exciting to see, and the KiCad newsletter even had …read more Continue reading Revive A Sony Vaio P-Series With KiCad’s Background Bitmaps
Among the changes made by Apple to its laptops over the years, the transition from a Hall sensor-based sleep sensor to an angle sensor that determines when the lid is …read more Continue reading Beating Apple’s Secret Lid Angle Sensor Calibration With Custom Tool
The ThinkPad 701 is an iconic laptop series from the mid-90s and is still highly sought after today because of its famous butterfly keybaord. The laptop itself is tiny even …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering a Classic ThinkPad Battery
An IBM (or, later, Lenovo) ThinkPad is a popular choice in our community. They’re prized for their rugged design, longevity, and good software support. Over the many years that the …read more Continue reading The ThinkPad You All Wish You Had, With A Brain That’s Not Ancient
If you’ve travelling via bike, you’ll know there’s a certain advantage to packing light. But what if you need to take your beefy desktop-replacement laptop with you on one of …read more Continue reading E-Bike Battery Tapped For Off-Grid Laptop Power