Blogs about Hardware

Pedestal fan repair by replacing the entire AC motor assembly.

This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: IRIS project overview Methodology Light source electronics Fine …

Leaving corporate-controlled social media is possible, but it requires some effort. Here is how.

Meteor Lake iGPU is a testament to Intel’s mobile graphics aspirations. It’s almost a quarter of an Arc A770. The Xe-LPG architecture used in Meteor Lake inherits Xe-HPG (A770) traits, including hardware raytracing. Here I’ll …

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 …

When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple die, implemented in a straightforward, cost-effective way. However, when I looked inside a military-grade chip built …

A basic calculator is a tool for quickly performing quick arithmetic functions. But graphing calculators are basically programmable computers. While they’re designed as math aids for students, engineers, and others… hackers have been porting games …

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 …

For a presentation at work where it’s tricky to add video but an image is ok, gifski worked brilliantly for converting a video to a gif. Even with the defaults it was fine. I needed …

There are plenty of fancy drones on the market but most of them have a very limited payload capacity. The Malloy Aeronautics T400 is a heavy load UAS that can lift 400lbs of load. 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 …