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by farkanoid 3y ago
Laplink! That part ot my brain hasn't activated in decades... My favourite was bootstrapping using 'COPY /B COM1: C:LL3.EXE' to get the Laplink executable to the target machine over Serial, when you didn't have a sp
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by farkanoid 3y ago
Wirepas requested a meeting with us at our office several years ago. They were very polite, but in all honesty, we knew even less about implementing their product afterward, and felt as though they weren't really interested in working
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by farkanoid 3y ago
But my remote contains a 12V battery /s
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by farkanoid 3y ago
Reading this made me (very) sorely miss my A1200, which I used as my daily driver all the way up to 2003. I was shocked at how much difference in speed a 4MB Fast RAM expansion and 68881 FPU made. You might like Photon of Scoopex's Ami
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by farkanoid 3y ago
There's a fascinating (in my opinion) TED talk about this featuring the same Biologist, with examples of regenerative experiments performed using Flatworms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XheAMrS8Q1c
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by farkanoid 3y ago
LEDs can effectively be used as light sensors when wired in reverse - About a decade ago there was a post where someone turned an 8x8 LED matrix into a touch sensor. Edit: Found the link, here it is: https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/~
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by farkanoid 3y ago
Haven't seen that name in a while! I have fond memories of both Spinrite and ShieldsUp
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by farkanoid 3y ago
Great. Now you've made me want to re-watch Stargate!
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by farkanoid 3y ago
Hi, Sorry about the delay, HN doesn't seem to notify me about comment replies. I wrote a simple PHP script that generates the labels. It just pulls a bunch of data from our parts database and positions the text/graphical elements
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by farkanoid 3y ago
For prototype/repair/rework parts, we use cheap folders with business card or CD/DVD inserts at work - Cheap and effective! The labels reflect the location of the item in the folder (Folder x Page y) and also the shelf in Sto
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by farkanoid 3y ago
Ditto here. Working with mains voltages and cabling every day for over 20 years. I know the IEC specs forwards backwards, but I'm 40, married and can't afford to leave my EE day job for a 4 year apprenticeship that pays nothing. A
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by farkanoid 3y ago
I really need to run this on some of the machines at work.
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by farkanoid 4y ago
I'M SO SORRY
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by farkanoid 4y ago
I'm so infatuated with these machines that I've been working on designing my own version (using parts available at Mouser/Digikey) for close to a decade. Unfortunately I've been unable to maintain a decent work/life
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by farkanoid 4y ago
https://www.ni.com/en-au/shop/electronic-test-instrumentatio... It looks nice but Jesus... $1550AUD a year for the designer edition?
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by farkanoid 4y ago
Alternative link: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/latitude-financial-breach-imp... For reference - Latitude provides interest free payment services to some of the largest retailers in Australia (ie: Harvey Norman, JB Hi
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Latitude Financial Services Hit by Cyber Attack – Customer Data Stolen(afr.com)
1 points by farkanoid 4y ago|1 comments
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by farkanoid 4y ago
That TED talk was great! Hoping to watch the other video tonight, thanks for sharing
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by farkanoid 4y ago
What a fascinating article! Thanks for sharing. I didn't realise there was so much crossover between embedded design and biology!
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by farkanoid 4y ago
I honestly had a hard time getting started with ESP32-C3 (my first ESP device). Admittedly all of it was my fault, I got too cocky and assumed things based on previous work with competing devices that I shouldn't have. Once up and runn
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by farkanoid 4y ago
I was going to mention how nice the old Black-White-Orange-Blue icons from the 80's Amiga era were, but it turns out I've completely misremembered and they really are quite horrible.
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by farkanoid 4y ago
Pregnant person!
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by farkanoid 4y ago
Ditto, I could almost hear the cracktro chiptunes.
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by farkanoid 4y ago
tl;dw Apparently there are 5G radios installed in streetlights and graphene in our vaccines, and the graphene somehow reacts when irradiated with 5G to turn into... worms?
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by farkanoid 4y ago
I had a brief stint as a technician repairing Foxtel IQ set-top boxes (Pay TV). I was just as surprised to find a UART present on the scart connector too! I guess it's relatively common
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by farkanoid 4y ago
That's odd, it still works for me? Top left corner of the IC, above the dot indicating pin 1, there's a small enameled copper wire connecting one pin/pad of the IC to a nearby ceramic capacitor
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by farkanoid 4y ago
I appreciate Nordic leaving that bodge wire[1] in the photo, even though they didn't have to. The article's a little sparse on technical detail though. [1] https://www.nordicsemi.com/-/media/Images/P
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by farkanoid 4y ago
Something seems a bit dodgy. The about page shows the top and bottom PCB layouts without any RAM sockets, only dozens of DDR RAM ICs soldered directly to the back of the card. ...Which would be fine, had I not stumbled upon (what seems to b
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by farkanoid 4y ago
> Someone describing the same disk using very similar terms and with from a similar location ⁽ʰᶦ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ˢʸᵈⁿᵉʸ ᵇᵗʷ⁾, which I'd be surprised (to say the least) to learn is not you: https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topi
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by farkanoid 4y ago
Love it! It reminds me of a utility on my old Amiga 1000 that allowed you to view the entire contents of RAM as a large scrollable bitmap. If you ran a game such as Marble Madness, rebooted the machine, then started the viewer program, very

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