Blogs about Hardware

Pedestal fan repair by replacing the entire AC motor assembly.

The ware for April 2024 is shown below: In some ways, this is a much easier ware than last month’s, but I wonder if anyone will be able to name the precise function of this …

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Qualcomm’s Adreno 6xx architecture has been superseded Adreno 7xx, but it’s still used in countless devices, including the current-gen Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3. Here, I’ll be looking at the Adreno 640 GPU in the Snapdragon …

In 1974 National Semiconductor introduced what is arguably the first 16-bit microprocessor (it had a 8-bit mode as well which was more efficient but could run 16-bits as well). This chip was made on a …

Hi All,I need to take a small break from the blog.I am dealing with too much stuff at the moment, with work and family medical things (helping with my mum's recovery from recent brain surgery …

It is painful, but it is beginning to work :On the picture a RP2040-pico zero running lnBMP and happily debugging a ch32v307 Riscv chip(of course it can still debug Arm chips)Perigoso did a lot of …

In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history, leading to …

This year two buzzy startups have been trying to cash in on the AI craze by introducing portable devices designed to let you use AI assistant software on the go without pulling your phone out …

This blog post was written back in June 2021. Back then we didn’t have a Mastodon account (although Adrian’s was a few years old by then) and the Fediverse was a much quieter place. We …

Apple has had a terrible month. The EU hit Apple with a $2 billion fine, The United States sued Apple for allegedly monopolizing its stake in the smartphone market, and now an unpatchable exploit has …

To answer my own question about LoRaWan Gateway not picking up general LoRa packets, I thought it might to be useful to get a utility in the gateway library called spectral scan working (see setup …

Here is a new robotic arm with AI for seamless automation. The Omron iCR, derived from NEURA Robotics‘ MAiRA line, has an integrated 3D vision sensor and advanced safety features to work around humans. It …

ws2mqtt - Connect WiSafe2 devices to Home Assistant

A quarter has passed since the last worknotes; now’s a good time to reflect on what I’ve been up to. Lunar Energy Two pieces of work this quarter with the Design team at Lunar. I …