Blogs about Hardware

Salvaging 18650 li-ion cells from dead battery pack of a ThinkPad T530.

The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks, but the details of the design of this type of ware are interesting from an engineering …

Everyone wants to prevent us from using the Internet the way we want, but we still have options.

When I recently interviewed Mike Clark, he told me, “…you’ll see the actual foundational lift play out in the future on Zen 6, even though it was really Zen 5 that set the table for …

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 …

I didn't expect to have any time to write a blog post in June (same as May and April), but as it turned out I did, so here I am!Work is currently crazy, and issues …

The main problem when debugging the code in ram is that the CPU will have started to executewhatever is in flash before you catch it, including potentially clearing the ram.As a result , the setup …

In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on mainframes. (I didn't completely analyze the chip, so …

It’s possible to connect most Android phones to a PC with a USB cable and treat the phone as a USB mass storage device if you want to drag and drop files between devices or …

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 …

One of the biggest decision players make during a Fallout playthrough is how to side with (or against) various factions present in the games. These factions often give the player a moral dilemma when deciding …

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 …

This is the Hydrus: an autonomous underwater drone that makes underwater data capture easy. It is ready to go out of the box without extensive training. It is based on an open platform and has …

ws2mqtt - Connect WiSafe2 devices to Home Assistant

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 …