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Blogs about Hardware

18 blogs about Hardware.

  1. Blog Joshua
    Joshua Rocky Tuahta Purba's personal blog about everything. 🇮🇩 More info

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    Li-ion Cells Salvage Again
    Salvaging 18650 li-ion cells from dead battery pack of a ThinkPad T530.
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  2. bunnie's blog
    By Andrew “bunnie” Huang. 🇸🇬 More info

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    Name that Ware, December 2024
    The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it because I had trouble searching for a recent example at an image quality sufficient to make …
    By bunnie, 67 words
  3. The Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and the Internet
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    I Miss Building Computers.
    With the technology, economics, and markets for computers having changed so drastically over the last quarter century, individuals now have very few reasons for building their own computers. Will that ever change?
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  4. Chips and Cheese – The Devil is in the Details
    Technology news, reviews, insights and leaks with a real technical twist, and the occasional rant or two... By George Cozma et al. More info

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    Inside the AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem
    AMD acquired ATI in 2006, hoping ATI's GPU expertise would combine with AMD's CPU know-how to create integrated solutions worth more than the sum of their parts. AMD uses the name "Accelerated Processing Unit" (APU) …
    By Chester Lam, 4,142 words
  5. The CPU Shack
    A museum for the history of processors and CPUs and how they have changed our world. Includes Intel, AMD as well as lesser known companies such as Signetics. By John Culver. 🇺🇸 More info

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    National Semi. PACE/INS8900 Test Boards
    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 …
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  6. Epsilon's World
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    C16 games for Gameboy, Analogue Pocket Amiga, and Tamagotchi in 2024
    I am finally finished with work for the year, and so this weekend I am finally able to finish some 2024 blog posts I had been working on, but never had time until now to …
    By Epsilon, 1,964 words
  7. EvermoreStudio
    By Andrew Crawford. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Chibitronics Intervew
    Chibitronics interviewed me for a Meet the Maker feature on their blog! If you want to know more about me, my background, my process, and what I do, check it out.Meet the Maker: Andrew Crawford …
    By Andrew Crawford, 46 words
  8. Going back to electronic after a 20 years break
    By meanX. More info

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    CH32V3, debug in ram with vscode continued
    Summary of previous episodes (CH32v3):1- Reallocate shadow ram to have 128k of RAM2- In flash, put a basic harmless loop3- Tweak the linker script to put everything in ram4- Load the code (to ram), change …
    By meanX, 324 words
  9. Ken Shirriff's blog
    Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium
    Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed. In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the …
    By Ken Shirriff, 3,311 words
  10. Liliputing
    Compact Computing (News, reviews, and info about tablets, notebooks, smartphones, and more). 🇺🇸 More info

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    GPD Duo dual-screen laptop review: When two screens are better than one
    The GPD Duo is a dual-screen laptop that sometimes feels like the Swiss Army Knife of mobile computers. It has a robust set of ports that includes USB4, OCuLink, and 2.5 Gb Ethernet. It’s available …
    By Brad Linder, 88 words
  11. MCQN Ltd
    Connecting strange things to the Internet since 2005. By Adrian McEwen, et al. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Studio Catchup - Bikes, Bikes, Bikes
    Our last catch-up was all about one project: Museum in a Box; this one is about a couple of projects, but grouped on a single theme: bikes. We're big fans of cycling in the studio, …
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  12. Netninja.com
    A web log of Brian's projects. By Brian Enigma. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Blocking Meta For A Week
    In a video with terrible hair, blotchy skin, and a weird gold chain, Zuckerberg announced last week that Meta is making some shifty Trump-butt-kissing policy changes. (Sidenote: I don’t like to make fun of peoples’ …
    By Brian Enigma, 640 words
  13. PC Gazer
    Popular Tags Gaming Intel Streaming Windows GPU Nvidia Linux Graphics Mac Benchmarks Humble Elgato M1 Pro Raspberry Pi M1 Max Alder Lake Handheld EVGA. By Ryan Matthew Pierson. 🇺🇸 More info

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    The FTC Strikes Out at Adobe Over Hidden Termination Fees
    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a federal court complaint against Adobe and two of its executives. The complaint alleges violations of the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act. These accusations stem from Adobe’s “annual paid …
    By Ryan Matthew Pierson, 258 words
  14. PlanB – Powered by tea
    Powered by tea. By Libby Miller. 🇬🇧 More info

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    19 things I learned while visiting Japan
    Everyone seems to have one of these – hope mine is useful to someone – I visited in November 2024. If you have backups running on your phone and a non-Japan plan, disable roaming before …
    By libbymiller, 476 words
  15. Robot Gizmos
    Covering the latest robots, robotic gizmos, coding kits, AI research, and advancements in the world of bionics. 🇺🇸 More info

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    OpenDroids R2D3 Modular Open Source Dual Arm Robot
    Robots are going to do many things for us in the future, including most of our household chores. Plenty of companies are working on perfecting them. Take OpenDroids’ R2D3 for instance: it is an AI …
    By robot man, 147 words
  16. SoftRobotCritics
    Autonomous motion, kinetics, aesthetics, softness, flexibility, and the unexpected. More info

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    2025-01-18 17:59
    *Clearly this is a “robotics system,” but not of the traditional, and everything has been reframed in NVIDIA’s large-model tech.The term-of-art here may be “world model,” so what does it do when it gets up …
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  17. Thomas' Random Hackery
    Web, hardware and other random hackery. By Thomas Hollstegge. 🇩🇪 More info

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    ws2mqtt - Connect WiSafe2 devices to Home Assistant
    ws2mqtt - Connect WiSafe2 devices to Home Assistant
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  18. Tom Armitage » Blog
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    Worknotes: Summer 2024
    Coming up for air. What happened is: I lined up the Next Thing (as mentioned at the end of last quarter’s worknotes), and then it promptly proceeded to entirely consume my time and brain for …
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