Collaborate Disseminate
Since the Raspberry Pi 3B+ release, the Pi boards we all know and love gained one more weakpoint – the PMIC chip, responsible for generating all the power rails a …read more Continue reading Dead Raspberry Pi Boards, PMICs, And New Hope
You may have noticed, we’re fans of the Raspberry Pi here at Hackaday. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t feature a hack that uses a Pi somewhere in the build. As useful as the Pis are, they aren’t entirely without fault. We’ve talked about the problems with the …read more
Continue reading Shorting Pins on a Raspberry Pi is a Bad Idea; PMIC Failures Under Investigation
While nobody is exactly sure on the exact etymology of the term, Thomas Edison mentioned some of his inventions being riddled with “bugs” in a letter he wrote all the way back to 1878. In the context of computers, any loyal Hackaday reader should know Grace Hopper’s infamous account of a moth being caught in an early electromechanical computer’s relays. To this pantheon of troublesome insects, we would humbly summit the story of a Sonoff TH16 switch being destroyed by a lowly ant.
According to [CNX Software], the Sonoff TH16 had been working perfectly for a year and a half …read more
Shinichirō Watanabe’s short film is one of three explaining events between the two ‘Blade Runner’ films. Continue reading The ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Anime Prequel Is a Cyberpunk Trip