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by retSava 9y ago
Did you report it to the FCC? I understand if you didn't, as a consumer, and this is not an attack on you. But this kind of thing should be punished, and one of the main ways to do this is to bring this to the attention of the regulati
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by retSava 9y ago
Yes, but there are two risks to that: 1) the conventional explosive detonates and it's similar enough to "normal" operating procedures to create critical mass and the nuke detonates 2) the radioactive material is spread out o
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Extreme refurbishing series: Episode 1 – Commodore 64(retrohax.net)
1 points by retSava 9y ago|0 comments
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A look at inner workings of Joycon and Nintendo Switch(github.com)
146 points by retSava 9y ago|61 comments
575.
by retSava 9y ago
There have been many accidents, of a kind where even one is one too many. Given the potential damage, I certainly don't feel comfortable with your assessment that there wasn't any danger it would go off. Likely these things happen
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by retSava 9y ago
To me, a fun thing to realize was that putting my phone in airplane mode wasn't enough to stop the phone from discharging a lot during the night. Also, installing SSL Packet Capture showed me that some of my (not even considered shady)
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Build a Wireless Street Lighting System(hackster.io)
2 points by retSava 9y ago|0 comments
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Xbox One review(theverge.com)
2 points by retSava 9y ago|0 comments
579.
by retSava 9y ago
Cool, but I don't really get the intended audience, if there's any specific? Games? I guess VR/AR stuff, like Google cardboard. I like that they have the C64: https://poly.google.com/view/9Qc5EtYmJry alt
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IKEA finally adds HomeKit support to its Tradfri smart lighting range(9to5mac.com)
2 points by retSava 9y ago|0 comments
581.
by retSava 9y ago
Got this today. It does to power analysis what Saleae Logic did to logic analyzers. That is, at the cost of performance (you can't do the high-end stuff), it makes it so much easier to get started. This one is about 400 euro, while a &
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Otii by QOITECH(qoitech.com)
2 points by retSava 9y ago|1 comments
583.
by retSava 9y ago
I guess the microcontroller controls a fan using PWM with a duty cycle depending on the mode. Even if you could do it with a 555, it's easier to just do it with a microcontroller. It also makes it easier to make changes up until produc
584.
by retSava 9y ago
Agree, for learning and that feeling of knowing more or less exactly what is going on, uc's like AVR, STM8, or MSP430 are hard to beat. It's comparatively simple to do things, and almost everything is just a couple of register set
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by retSava 9y ago
It's interesting that not only the later platform - the Arduino, which started out with AVR and aimed at simplifying programming the devices - but the AVR chip itself started out with the goal of simplifying the process of using it (pr
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Chip Hall of Fame: Atmel ATmega8(spectrum.ieee.org)
128 points by retSava 9y ago|64 comments
587.
by retSava 9y ago
Thank you for the explanation and the link!
588.
by retSava 9y ago
Argh, this must be so frustrating for the Kodi devs...! There really is a very strong case for running a Kodi-box for ones own legit collection, and now it's just mentioned for the (admittedly, probably) not so slight share of piracy.
589.
by retSava 9y ago
Argh, this is very interesting, but they don't say what it is! Does anyone know? What was the update? Did that really single-handedly (or almost) bump price 12k->25k? "To make things worse, an update to the prototype's des
590.
by retSava 9y ago
"closest approach" is very unquantified, and 400 meter is a very small object in a large space. It's a hard problem, probably not very prioritized either.
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by retSava 9y ago
Fun thing: the SR-71 is built as well to cope with massive expansion once up to speed, so much so it is leaking all over the place when groundborne.
592.
by retSava 9y ago
Oh, the many christmas presents made in slöjd! As the saying goes, "Ärad var gud i höjden, det här har jag gjort i slöjden". ("Prized be the lord in heaven, I've made this in slöjden" could be a best-effort translat
593.
by retSava 9y ago
For all of us that are delighted by nixie tubes, here's another nice thing to like. Beautiful! Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimo_tube This was the best video I found on youtube to show this tube off.
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The NIMO Tube: Rarest and Most Dangerous Digital Display of All Time(youtube.com)
2 points by retSava 9y ago|1 comments
595.
by retSava 9y ago
That CD is probably unreadable by now, unless you used a disc made specifically for storage and it has been stored in a climate controlled storage space. They lose out quite quickly.
596.
by retSava 9y ago
Also check out the other example dismap shows: Excitebike! Much fewer and longer subroutines. Interesting, I wonder if that in turn is mostly a result of developer coding style differences, or a result of game mechanics being different.
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by retSava 9y ago
Wow, that is amazingly complex! It's beautiful, in a way. I tried to see if there was something very central, called from lots of places, but there doesn't seem to be any such place. There are a few, but not something singular tha
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by retSava 9y ago
Yeah the mount just leaves it hanging. It will likely be noisy. Why not properly anchor the fan in all four corners? It could still mount to the rpi with two screws.
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How to repair an IC with damaged pins(imgur.com)
2 points by retSava 9y ago|0 comments
600.
by retSava 9y ago
Might very well be exactly what they did; it might be that 1500 was the tip of the bathtub curve so to speak and 260 was on the low end. We'll never know.

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