By popular demand, I’ll show you how to set up your very own Kubernetes cluster. But not just any boring old cluster, I’ll show off the process of doing this on the Raspberry Pi platform, which is a cheaper and more energy-efficient foundation for your clustering needs.
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STM32 Blue Pill vs Black Pill Microcontroller Boards
The “Blue Pill” is a cheap STM32 Cortex-M3 based microcontroller board. It is popular because of its price and versatility. Now there is an updated variant, dubbed the “Black Pill” with a new STM32 microcontroller based on the Cortex-M4F (with a FPU).
The Blue Pill uses the STMicro STM32F103C8T6 and costs less than $2. The new “Black Pill” is shipping in two variants, one using the STM32F401CCU6, the other using STM32F411CEU6. Both are Arm Cortex-M4F based microcontrollers.
Building an Electric Bike
Building an electric bike isn’t easy, especially when using unconventional electronics, such as a drone motor. After 3 years of development, I have a bike that I’m finally happy with… but who knows what I’ll change next…
Complete Nintendo Power Set. All 285 Issues
Today we take a look at all 285 issues of Nintendo Power Magazine.
From the debut issue from the summer of 1988 to the final farewell issue im December 2012
Watch these overclockers crank Intel’s Core i9 10900K all the way to 7.7GHz
For the time being, the highest validated overclock for Intel’s brand new Core i9 10900K Comet Lake CPU is just over 7.7GHz, achieved by a team of enthusiasts with tubs of liquid helium at their disposal. Suffice to say, don’t try this at home.
Professional overclocker Elmor and his team certainly didn’t. Sequestered in a lab at Asus’s headquarters, Elmor and the gang got busy dumping a steady supply of liquid helium into a pot attached to an Asus ROG Maximus XII Apex motherboard, which is built for this sort of thing.
Original Xbox’s complete source code leaked online
The original Xbox was a new frontier for modders and tinkerers, as the included hard drive made it easy to install unofficial dashboards and pirated games. Those enthusiasts might be getting a flashback to 2002, as the official Xbox OS has leaked online, according to The Verge. This includes the Xbox dev kit, emulators, build environments, documentation and the kernel itself. These kinds of leaks have often enabled developers to create unofficial (and illegal) fan projects such as emulators. However, The Verge notes that some of this data has been available within the homebrew scene for a while, so it’s not clear how much of it will be a revelation to the Xbox modding and emulation community.
AMD B550 Motherboards Announced: PCIe 4.0 Support for as Little as $100
With AMD’s new mainstream Ryzen 3 3000 CPUs hitting our test bench a couple of weeks ago and Vega-packing Ryzen 4000 Renoir desktop chips seemingly waiting in the wings, now is as good a time as any for new affordable AMD motherboards. Board makers have recently been busy rolling out to Intel-based Z490 boards. But those same companies are also about to usher in a slew of B550 boards (announcing today and going on sale starting June 16) for recent AMD processors that bring most of the key features (like PCIe 4.0 support) of the higher-end X570 platform that launched last year at lower price points that start at $100.
Alienware Announces AW2521HF Gaming Monitor – 360Hz Monitor With NVIDIA GSYNC And AMD Freesync
Alienware introduces the AW2521HF gaming monitor is a 24.5″ monitor with a native refresh rate of up to 240 Hz and an incredibly fast 1 ms GtG fast IPS response time. This monitor also has a fantastic feature of being able to be overclocked to a new refresh rate of 360 Hz, all the while still offering support for both NVIDIA’s G-SYNC and AMD’s FreeSync Premium.
Adventures with solderless 3D printed circuits + conductive filament
I had in my possession some X3D conductive ABS. The question begged: Could I create a 3D printed PCB that didn’t use a soldering iron? Yes!
Well, sort of..
I certainly learned a lot making this video but the conductive filament isn’t quite up to the task, based on my experiences and those I reviewed of others.
This filament was supplied to me free of charge by my filament sponsor X3D. It was my choice to make the video and all opinions expressed are my own.
G2A admits it sold stolen game keys
After years of shrugging off claims it sold stolen keys, grey-market reseller G2A has admitted to shifting copies which were “illegally obtained”.
The disclosure comes as part of a backfired plan to prove its innocence, which has also cost the company around $40,000.
Last year, G2A attempted to dampen longstanding concerns it did not give a damn where the mysteriously-cheap keys it sold actually came from. It laid out a limited-time offer designed to grab headlines after a round of bad publicity – saying it would pay game developers 10 times their costs if it was proven G2A sold stolen keys for a particular game.