For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron ...

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If you read Japanese, you might have seen the book “Design and Implementation of Microkernels” by [Nu Tian Sheng]. An ...

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There are many AI models out there that you can play with from companies like OpenAI, Google, and a host of others. But when ...

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Stephen Woodward] is familiar with digital potentiometers but is also familiar with their limitations. That spurred him to ...

You probably get a few of these things each week in the mail. And some of them actually do a good job of obscuring the contents inside, even if you hold the envelope up to the light. But have you ...