Tagged “hardware”
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My Broken ThinkPad Plays Music upon Booting
A puzzle-like investigation into a dead laptop that plays a strange tune at startup, involving spectrograms, murky video…
NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card
A build write-up of a PCB business card that harvests power from a smartphone's NFC field to run a microcontroller and 2…
Open Circuits
Photos of electronic components cut in half to reveal their hidden insides, from resistors and capacitors to chips and L…
PC Gazer
A site with hardware and software news and reviews for tech enthusiasts, from consumer gadgets and GPUs to Linux and ent…
Peanut Butter Spinner
A maker's blog post about building a motor-driven gadget that stirs the separated oil back into natural peanut butter, w…
Perfect Media Server
A community-run guide comparing NAS and homelab hardware builds for people assembling their own file and media servers.
Plan B
Technical experiments and write-ups by creative technologist Libby Miller, covering hardware and making, all powered by…
POV Candle
A tiny volumetric display built to mimic a flickering candle with spinning LEDs, with full build details, video demo and…
Processor Tycoon
A business simulation where you start your own hardware company, design processors and compete with rival companies to d…
RealTuner
A quirky web page that lets you tune your guitar with a real Boss TU-3 pedal tuner, accessed remotely through your brows…
Retrocomputers Online Museum
An online museum of restored vintage computers and peripherals, with full photo sets of the hardware and software on eac…
Rhei
Rhei is a prototype clock that shows the time with flowing liquid in an electro-mechanical display, with photos and vide…
Rodrigo Copetti - Architecture of Consoles
Richly illustrated deep dives into how classic game consoles like the Saturn, PlayStation and 3DS work inside, written f…
SBC Compare
A hand-benchmarked comparison of 120 single board computers, with CPU, GPU and memory results, specs and rankings for fi…
Shmoergh Hog
The story of building Hog, a simple switches-over-knobs analog synthesizer for live performance, with photos and notes f…
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
A candid engineering write-up on why Railway built its own data centers, covering power, cooling, racks, networking and…
Split Keyboards Gallery
A visual gallery of split keyboards for comparing layouts and designs, useful if you are weighing an ergonomic typing se…
Switch Lite Boardview
A reverse-engineering project that maps the Nintendo Switch Lite circuit board in a zoomable boardview rendered at 6,000…
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
Did Apple deliberately hobble the IIGS to protect the Macintosh? A retro-computing deep dive tests the legend against ha…
The MOnSter 6502
A working, transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502 processor built from discrete components on a huge board, wi…
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
A detective-style blog post that digs into why HP shipped laptops with a strange FreeDOS option, with screenshots and th…
Theremingoat
An exhaustively detailed switch-review blog rating the feel and sound of hundreds of mechanical keyboard switches.
Tiny Tapeout
An open-source project that lets hobbyists design and fabricate their own tiny silicon chips, sharing die space with oth…
VRcompare
A database of every VR and AR headset released to date, with specs, prices, and reviews, plus a compare tool for putting…
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