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All Change!
Earlier today as you are reading this (assuming you are reading it on Tuesday 6th September, which is when it’s scheduled to post on the…
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Hot Stuff: You Might Rent the Car Seat that Heats Your Derriere or Your Next Running Shoes
When the first reports of BMW creating a marketing program to rent heated seats in its newest vehicles, the news coverage was designed to make…
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Meet the HRRG 4-Bit Mixed-Technology Computer
Time seems to be passing extremely fast these days. Every time I blink, another week passes by; every time I sneeze, I lose another month;…
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Flight Simulation Stresses USB Hubs and Reveals Other USB Pitfalls. Here are Some Helpful Hints
Ron Sartore is a serial entrepreneur and a USB veteran. He started a company named Anchor Chips in 1995, back before USB was a standard.…
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O-M-Gosh, I’ve Been Zeked! (Part 1)
I have to acknowledge that I’m speechless, and that’s not something you can expect to hear me say very often. The reason for my glazed…
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Are You Ready for Ubiquitous Connectivity?
Let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose you find yourself trapped in a small space like an elevator and someone looks you in the eye and…
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$4 Logic Analyzer Based on Raspberry Pi Pico
Here’s a truly inspired project. Dr. AgustÃn Gimenez Bernad, a Senior Developer in ServiZurich S.A. in Spain, has created one of the most brilliant hacks…
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Retro-Futuristic-Steampunk Technologies (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this who-knows-how-many-parts-there-will-be Retro-Futuristic-Steampunk Technologies mini-series, we focused on one of my favorite display technologies in the form of Nixie tubes. We…
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Intel oneAPI and DPC++: One Programming Language to Rule Them All (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc)
Nvidia has something that Intel and AMD covet. No, it’s not GPUs. Intel and AMD both make GPUs. However, they don’t have Nvidia’s not-so-secret weapon…
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Let’s Read Our Little Cotton Socks Off (Part 2)!
In Part 1 of my soon-to-be-famous Let’s Read Our Little Cotton Socks Off mega-mini-series, we closed with my noting that much of what I know…