Western Digital Launches 20 TB Mechanical Hard Drive With OptiNAND Technology

Western Digital Unleashes 20 TB Mechanical Hard Drive With OptiNAND Technology

The 20 TB mechanical drive’s flash memory is integrated “iNAND UFS embedded flash drive (EFD) on the circuit board,” and also performs with a 3D TLC UFS flash memory, the capacity of which has not been released to the public. Western Digital intends to improve reliability and performance with the new drive.

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How To Make Robots Move Smoothly | Arduino Tutorial

There are lots of great animatronic and robotics props and projects out there, and it’s easy to make r/c servos and other actuators move using the Arduino servo library. This means that the servos stops and start very suddenly, moving as fast as they can between positions. In this video I’m going to show you two lines of very simple code to make things smoother.

Sensitive Arduino Lightning Detector with Homemade Sensor

How to make a sensitive homemade lightning detector based on cheap AM receiver IC TA7642 and Arduino Nano.

A lightning detector is a device that detects lightning produced by thunderstorms.
In one of my previous videos, I showed you how to make such a detector with the help of the AS3935 sensor board which is specially designed for this purpose. This time I will show you how to make same such device, but now with a homemade detector circuit based on cheap AM Receiver IC TA7642.

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Researchers from TU braunschweig have developed a new method of 3D printing concrete that shows potential for more complex printed structures.

A team of researchers from TU braunschweig in germany has developed a new method of 3D printing concrete that shows potential for more complex 3D printed structures. currently, 3D printed concrete construction focuses on three methods, material extrusion, particle-bed binding, and jetting, all of which apply the concrete in horizontal layers. unlike these layered techniques, injection 3D concrete printing (I3DCP) consists of robotically injecting a fluid material into another material with specific rheological properties, in other words, how the material responds under force or stress. free from gravity, injecting allows more complex structures to be printed in one piece.

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Wearable Scope Lets Your Fingers do the Probing

For frantic hacking sessions where seconds count, this forearm mounted oscilloscope with fingertip probes built by [aniketdhole] might be just what you need. Well, maybe. It’s not immediately clear why you might want to wear an oscilloscope on your arm, and sticking your fingers inside of powered up electronic devices sounds specifically like something your mother probably told you not to do, but here it is anyway.

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The new Arduino CLI 0.19.0 is out and better than ever!

There’s a truckload of news from the Arduino Tooling Team today: Arduino CLI 0.19.0 is now available! This release has tons of great enhancements, exciting new features and heaps of bug fixes. Some things required quite a bit of breaking changes but they’re worth the hassle.

The highlights of this release are certainly the addition of pluggable discovery and the internal restructuring of the startup steps of the Arduino CLI. These affected the JSON output of some commands and the gRPC interface functions, which is documented in the upgrading guide.

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Pi64 – The Pi64 is a Raspberry Pi 400 that thinks it’s a Commodore 64.

love the retro vibes that the Raspberry Pi 400 gives off. The all-in-one computer-in-a-keyboard design makes me feel like I’m working with a computer from my childhood. The only problem I have is that when I look up from the keyboard, it’s just another modern(-ish) computer running Linux. I set out to fix that with the Pi64.

Inspired by the Commodore 64, the Pi64 boots into a C64-themed bash shell in text mode. No X Server is involved. It is not a C64 emulator, it is Raspberry Pi OS, so you can get real work done; it just extends the Pi 400’s retro feel to the screen.

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Sparkpad Sparks Joy for Streamers

The best streamers keep their audience constantly engaged. They might be making quips and doing the funny voices that everyone expects them to do, but they’re also busy reading chat messages aloud and responding, managing different scenes and transitions, and so on. Many streamers use a type of macro keyboard called a stream deck to greatly improve the experience of juggling all those broadcasting balls.

Sure, there are dedicated commercial versions, but they’re kind of expensive. And what’s the fun in that, anyway? A stream deck is a great candidate for DIY because you can highly personalize the one you make yourself. Give it clicky switches, if that’s what your ears and fingers want. Or don’t. It’s your macro keyboard, after all.

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Custom Halo Needler Xbox Controller Gets An ‘Elite V2’ Upgrade

Xbox isn’t the only one rolling out Halo-themed hardware and accessories ahead of the release of Halo Infinite. The talented creator POPeART (formerly known as Xbox Pope) is at it again – this time with the “Needler Elite V2”.

It’s the same pattern we saw early on in August but instead of the standard Xbox Series X|S controller, it’s the series 2 version of the Elite controller – featuring the grips, fancier controller pad, coloured paddles and all the other extras.

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