Remember the old days of dial up and the BBS? Loading up Terminate and listening to the modem handshake was bliss.
Revisit those days with scans of the original BoardWatch Magazine on Archive.org!
BoardWatch Magazine – For you Old School BBS nerds!
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Seasonic launches its first Connect 750W power supply
After a few years in development, Seasonic has rolled out its first Connect power supply. A solution that is designed to improve cable management when building a PC via a magnetic cable hub back-plane and shorter modular cables.
Seasonic originally revealed its concept power supply way back at Computex 2018, that was designed to make the task of managing cables inside a PC a much simpler job. Again, at Computex 2019, Seasonic introduced the Connect power supply which became the official name of this new type of PC power supply. Since then, things have been rather quiet about when the Connect power supply series would launch.
AMD’s Ryzen CPU sales are totally destroying Intel’s – according to one retailer
AMD’s Ryzen processors have again pushed to new levels of dominance over Intel, at least going by one set of spilled stats from a German online retailer.
Leaked figures from Mindfactory for week eight of 2020, which were shared on Twitter, indicate that AMD has a colossal market share of 86.11%, leaving Intel struggling along on just 13.89%.
This Is Not A Drill… Universal Studios Hollywood Is Getting A Super Nintendo World!
Just when we thought our theme parks couldn’t get any better, we’ve caught wind that a Super Nintendo World is planning to set up camp inside of our very own Universal Studios Hollywood! Soon, gamers of all ages and expertise will get to experience an immersive world created around what may arguably be the most recognized video games in the world.
As of right now, all the buzz is centered around Universal Studios Japan and it’s Super Nintendo World opening ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Though there isn’t much information released about the new theme park, Newsweek reports that it will be filled with “incredibly fun rides, shops, a restaurant, and interactive gameplay throughout the land.” If your mind is as blown as ours, wait ’till you watch this video below of ride-testing of some sort in Japan!
$31 Android 10 TV Box From Wish Is It Worth Buying?
So I bought a $31 Android 10 Tv box from wish.com and in this video we are going to see how it performs, if we really got exactly what was listed and if it’s even worth buying one. The site stated this is an Android TV running Android 10 with 4Gb of ram and 64Gb of storage powered by an Allwinner Quad Core H616 CPU. Can it run 4k or even 6k video? Can you play Android games on it? Can you run Emulators on it? Let’s Find Out.
Clever Anti Piracy on the Super Nintendo | MVG
The Super Nintendo was released in North America in 1991 and it featured an almost identical lockout chip from the NES known as the CiC. By 1994 cartridge based disk copiers became popular which easily circumvented any region protection. In this video we look at different methods Nintendo used to detect copiers and lock out backup copies.
Comparing HBA IT mode SAS controllers
In this video, I compare and contrast a variety of HBA (host bus adapter) SAS controllers with IT mode firmware.
Adam Savage’s Spot Robot Rickshaw Carriage!
Adam’s first project with Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot gives it a novel purpose: pulling a custom-built carriage with Adam as its passenger! Watch Adam give Spot some Victorian flair and the interesting problems that arise in marrying cutting-edge robot technology with vintage transport.
Resys is an LED drawer system that makes it easy to find your resistors
You’ve got your design ready to go, you know you have the right components… but where exactly did you place that particular resistor? With the Resys drawer system by Lynlimer, you no longer have to wonder — just type in the needed value and the proper drawer lights up automatically.
The device is based on an Arduino Nano, with an LCD display for text output and a numeric keypad for value entry. The proper drawers are lit via WS2812B addressable LEDs, held in 3D-printed holders.
It’s a clever project that could be expanded to well beyond the 16 drawers now used. Code, STLs, and circuit diagrams are available in Lynlimer’s write-up if you want to make your own!
Before Nintendo and Atari: How a black engineer changed the video game industry forever
Atari. Magnavox. Intellivision.
Each evokes memories of the golden age of video games, which brought the first wave of consoles you could connect to your home television.
But there’s an oft-forgotten person from that era whose contributions to the industry still resonate today: a black engineer named Jerry Lawson.
Lawson oversaw the creation of the Channel F, the first video game console with interchangeable game cartridges – something the first Atari and Magnavox Odyssey systems did not use.
