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question: you have a USB connector on your project. how do you connect the shield? justify your answer, reply to the thread. (click this thread for the poll) how do
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i have a theory about the name of the iconic Roland TR-808 drum machine. the "TR" part stands for Transistor Rhythm but where does the 808 part come from?
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why are chips often so expensive? how do chip companies determine the prices of their chips? a thread... first thing chip companies do is to figure out the COGS
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let's find out how this LED bulb works. there's a tiny round circuit board underneath the sealed part of it! but i want to get to the LEDs. OK, wow,
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ever wonder why the IBM CGA card had such a terrible color palette in graphics mode? (technically two color palettes, this was the other one) you could switch between those
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the resistor in the foreground has only one stripe. this is because it is a zero ohm resistor. yes, zero. but wait--you say--isn't that just a wire? so let's
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why am i doing this to myself? context. this hex dump is actually *very cursed* for some surprising reasons if you'll notice i'm decoding text as EBCDIC. this file is
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celebrate Beethoven's birthday by listening to this *remarkable* recording. why is it remarkable? read on... #Beethoven250 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY7lvuVjjX4 did you listen to it? good. it's a very good recording, consideri
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let's order strange things from NIST! first up is this jar of reference peanut butter. it's only $881 per jar! but it's no ordinary peanut butter. it's got a MSDS!
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this happened to a Boeing 787 while it was parked at Boston Logan back in 2013. yes, the infamous. it's *very* fortunate that it was parked at the time
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so i want to connect my Atari 800 to my computer. but it has this weird "peripheral" connector that i can't find anywhere. must be some fully custom thing.
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here is part of the payload electronics from the Explorer 8 satellite (1960)! look at all the machined phenolic, colorful hand-tied wiring harness, and the stacks of round circuit modules!
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