Dipping a rock into chemicals until it becomes a computer chip; Upgraded Homemade Silicon IC Fab Process
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This liquid cooler’s CPU block is also a 1440p monitor with its own HDMI input
Sometimes it can feel like if you have seen one all-in-one (AIO) liquid cooler, then you’ve seen them all, with only minor variations in appearance from one to the next. Barrowch, a cooling product maker in China, found a way to stand out from the crowd: Put a high resolution display on a series of modular CPU water blocks, each complete with an HDMI port.
MacroPact Is a Raspberry Pi Pico Macro Keyboard
This stunning Raspberry Pi Pico macro keyboard features 17 keys, two encoders, an IPS screen, and a 3D-printed enclosure.
The keyboard/mouse combo has worked well for many years, but with the availability of HID-capable microcontrollers, 3D printing, and custom-made circuit boards, it’s possible to buy or construct your own third interface device: a macropad. These auxiluary keyboards can be programmed to do all sorts of tasks in an instant that cost you precious seconds before. Some even include an encoder (or two) and perhaps an auxiliary interface screen.
Minicomputer Part 5: Building an Arduino ROM Reader
In this episode we take our first step towards ensuring that we have a backup plan if all the magic smoke comes out on first power up – we rip the data off the ROMs! It’s not as easy as it sounds though as these ROMs are pretty old and weird chips that aren’t supported by a lot of ROM programmers out there, so in the end, we end up building our own ROM reader from scratch using an Arduino and some 74LS161s!
YouTuber Proves Watercooling a CPU Air Cooler Works (Really Well)
When it comes to cooling your desktop PC’s processor there’s two main options: air cooling and water cooling. Air coolers are the simpler and more popular option, but can be noisy, where as watercooling can be near silent with a good pump while allowing you to push your chip harder.
But what about combining both? YouTuber Major Hardware decided to find out if such a thing would work.
Mini Raspberry Pi Server With Built In UPS & Stats Display
In this video, we’re going to be putting together a mini Raspberry Pi server with a built-in UPS. A Raspberry Pi makes a great server for a NAS or for media streaming, home automation or even a home security hub for your cameras. All of these projects can benefit from having a built-in UPS to ensure that the Pi is kept running in the event of a power interruption.
Google says it has created a time crystal in a quantum computer, and it’s weirder than you can imagine
In what could be the first useful application of quantum computing, Google’s scientists have demonstrated the existence of a new phase of matter.
In a new research paper, Google scientists claim to have used a quantum processor for a useful scientific application: to observe a genuine time crystal.
If ‘time crystal’ sounds pretty sci-fi that’s because they are. Time crystals are no less than a new “phase of matter”, as researchers put it, which has been theorized for some years now as a new state that could potentially join the ranks of solids, liquids, gases, crystals and so on. The paper remains in pre-print and still requires peer review.
An open source desk to showcase your projects, complete with swappable panels
Almost every maker has run into the problem of not being able to find a convenient display or power source for their project prototype, and thus leading to minor delays and some frustration. However, YouTuber Another Maker has come up with an open source desk concept that makes finding these things simple. The system he built uses a large grid of swappable panels that can simply slide into place within a wooden frame. Behind these are a few devices for both power and connectivity, such as power strips, an Ethernet switch (with PoE capabilities), and an HDMI switch for changing between a Raspberry Pi and a PC.
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Ike T. Sanglay Jr. Puts Apple’s macOS Big Sur on a Custom Handheld, Powered by a LattePanda Alpha
This handheld hackintosh uses an off-the-shelf SBC, some software tricks, and a 3D-printed chassis with Arduino-driven cooling system.
Maker Ike T. Sanglay Jr. has shown off what he believes to be the world’s first handheld computer capable of running Apple’s macOS 11 “Big Sur” operating system — courtesy of a LattePanda Alpha single-board computer in a 3D-printed housing.
“As for how I installed macOS,” Sanglay explains in his video walk-through of the project, “I just followed the OpenCore Dortania guide. The LattePanda Alpha has an Intel [Core] m3-8100Y CPU and 8 gigabytes of RAM.”
This Wearable Cyberdeck Is as Stylish as They Come
Cyberdecks are a dime a dozen these days, but this wearable cyberdeck called Кибердек RA01 that stands out.
The cyberdecks from William Gibson’s novels are pure function. Deckers in that world cobble their cyberdecks together without any concern for style. But that is, of course, punk rock as hell and stylish in its own apathetic way. Today’s cyberdeck community leans heavily into the cyberpunk aesthetic. Very few people build cyberdecks for practical purposes — they’d use a laptop if practicality was their concern. And that is why the hobby is enjoyable, because it gives enthusiasts the opportunity to express their inner dystopian industrial designer. R▲, a Russian “underground cyberpunk artist,” took that to heart when they built this wearable cyberdeck called КибердекRA01.
