Samsung’s first 8TB SSD for mainstream PCs is the 870 QVO

Samsung finally has an 8TB solid-state drive that’s ready for the mainstream. The company has unveiled an 870 QVO range of SSDs that ranges from ‘just’ 1TB through to the flagship 8TB capacity — enough that you may not have to worry about free space for a long time. It’s an SATA drive limited to peak sequential read and write speeds of 560MB/s and 530MB/s respectively, but Samsung is promising a 13 percent boost in random read speeds over the 860 QVO.

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Real-Time Voice Cloning (Toolbox)

This repository is an implementation of Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis (SV2TTS) with a vocoder that works in real-time. Feel free to check my thesis if you’re curious or if you’re looking for info I haven’t documented. Mostly I would recommend giving a quick look to the figures beyond the introduction.

SV2TTS is a three-stage deep learning framework that allows to create a numerical representation of a voice from a few seconds of audio, and to use it to condition a text-to-speech model trained to generalize to new voices.

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RaspberryPi fruitbox – MP3 Jukebox

Raspberry Pi fruitbox

fruitbox is a customisable MP3 player for the Raspberry Pi, allowing the user to create the look and feel of classic jukeboxes.

An SD image file is available here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bc1r0ypwrvaqln4/rpi-fruitbox-v1.16a.img.zip?dl=0

Just download the image, and burn it onto a SD card (using balenaEtcher for example on a Windows PC). Then put all your MP3 files onto a USB memory stick, plug into the Pi (any model except Pi4) and then power up! If you want to use touchscreens, remap your buttons or create your own skins, then you’ll need to read the userguide.txt to find out how. The default keys are also detailed in the userguide.

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Is the Nvidia Shield Still The Best Android TV? Should you Buy One In 2020?

Is the Nvidia Shield Android TV still the best Android TV?
Let’s find out In this video we test out some 4K video playback Native and streaming, take a look at Geforce now, some native android games like real racing 3 and half-life 2 then wrap it up with some emulation using PPSSPP for PSP and Redream for Dreamcast.

I’ve tested a lot of cheaper and expensive android tv boxes along with a ton of single-board computers running Android Tv and overall the Shield is defiantly my go-to choice.

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The new #ESP32-S2: How relevant is it for the Makers? First tests

When the ESP32 came to the market, it was well equipped: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, two fast cores, an ultra low power core, lots of pins, etc. One thing, however, was lacking: Native USB support like the SAMD processors, for example. This changed with the new ESP32, the ESP32-S2. Here I have two development boards. Let’s look if it is the same “killer” as the first ESP32 was.

Making a miniature IBM 1401 scale model. Scratch build, no 3D printing allowed here! OC

This is an IBM 1401 scaled model I am working on, part of a diorama. It is a scratch build made of polystyrene mostly.
I make everything by hand, no 3D printing involved.
The IBM 1401 is a computer from 1959, considered to be the first successful mass produced computer. I have been working on this miniature diorama since December last year, to celebrate its 60th anniversary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401

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Use an Arduino to Build an Electronic Connect Four Game

Connect Four (sometimes marketed as “Connect 4”) was first published by Milton Bradley in 1974. It’s a two-player game where the players take turns dropping discs into a grid. The goal of the game is to get four of your discs in a line vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. It’s a fun game that can be quite challenging despite the deceptively simple rules. Unfortunately, the fun doesn’t last long before you inevitably lose some of the discs. Kelly Bodeman and Jack Whelan used an Arduino to create an electronic Connect Four game that ditches those discs entirely, and they have posted an Instructables tutorial explaining how you can build your own.

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