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 …

Thanks to the hellscape that big tech's social media has become, if you have ever considered running your own small social media site, now is the time to do it.

In October of 2023, Qualcomm announced its newest Laptop SOC lineup called the Snapdragon X Elite (SDXE). There has been a ton of excitement around this chip since then, due to it using a custom …

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 …

The AYANEO Air 1S is a handheld gaming PC featuring a 5.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel AMOLED display and an AMD Ryzen processor with RDNA 3 graphics. When it first launched last summer the …

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 REX Evolution Robot Kit: it comes with everything you need to make 8 models. It not only introduces your kids to STEM concepts but helps them become better coders with Python. This …

Humanoid robots sopping up some VC money

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 …