An intriguing piece of retro gadgetry that lets you view the magnetic patterns recorded on tape.
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108 Rare and Bizarre Media Types
Follow along as we review 108 Rare and Bizarre Media Types!
Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”
Last week, the fine Redditors of /r/DataHoarder got upset with Western Digital again—this time, for misrepresenting the rotational speed of their WD Red Network Attached Storage hard drives. (Although the linked post brings things to a head, members of the German-language forum hardwareluxx.de began investigating the issue more than year ago.)
Western Digital gets sued for sneaking SMR disks into its NAS channelWe found this controversy reminiscent of earlier complaints that Western Digital was not properly disclosing use of Shingled Magnetic Recording technology in their NAS drives. But the new complaint is that Western Digital calls 7200RPM drives “5400 RPM Class”—and the drives’ own firmware report 5400 RPM via the SMART interface.
CHUWI LarkBox Teardown – World’s Smallest 4K Mini PC
In this video, we do a teardown on the world’s smallest 4K Mii PC the CHUWI LarkBox. Powered by the Intel Celeron J4115 and backed by 6GB of DDR4 ram this little PC is turning out to be pretty awesome but I wanted to see how they fit all this tech into a pack that measures 2.4”x2.4”.
Turning Sound Into a Laser
Using non-linear acoustics, I’m able to focus audible sound like a laser. I go over some basic principals of operation, how I designed the circuit, and how you can build your own.
Alternative-meat startup is hoping a 3D-printed steak can upend the meat industry
It may look like Play-Doh. But it’s actually a 3D-printed steak.
It’s made by the Israeli alternative-meat startup Redefine Meat, and the technology behind it is one of many contenders in today’s sizzling-hot international race to capitalize on the growing faux-meat market.
Redefine Meat isn’t focusing on alternatives to ground beef or sausages, but whole-cut steaks — an area of the market that has yet to hit the mainstream.
A Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop! CrowPi2 First Look
In this video, we take look at the all-new CrowPi2 Raspberry Pi Laptop. With an 11.6 Inch 1080P display and powered by the Raspberry Pi 4 this is an interesting little laptop.
In this video we unbox and test out the CRowPi2 with the included CrowPi Software an by the end we even test out RetroPie on this laptop.
7 Common LED Strip FAILS and How To Avoid Them
LED strips are the light source of the future, make sure you don’t make one of these 7 common mistakes.
Here’s Doom Eternal running at 1,000 fps on a liquid nitrogen cooled PC
Earlier this year id’s lead engine programmer said that id Tech 7 powering Doom Eternal could run at 1,000 fps. Which is kind of a funny theoretical laugh because nobody has a computer that can do that, at least I thought so, but apparently there are overclockers out there who can in fact do that. Bethesda recruited Polish hardware retailer x-kom to figure out how to run Doom Eternal at 1,000 frames per second. Then they did it. There’s a video of it, above.
The surprise? For me, at least, it’s that this is fairly widely available, if expensive, computer hardware. Here are the specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i7 9700K @ 6.6GHz
- Motherboard: ASUS Maximus XI APEX
- GPU: ASUS RTX2080Ti Strix @ 2.4GHz
- RAM: HyperX Predator 4000MHz CL19 2x8GB
- Drive: Samsung 512GB M.2 NVMe Evo Plus
- Power: Be Quiet 1200W Straight Power
Of course, you couldn’t really do this at home because the key component is that they had to literally pour liquid nitrogen into the computer to make it work. Yes! That’s right, -196 degrees Celsius, -321 degrees Fahrenheit, liquid nitrogen. That’s because when you overclock a system like this it gets very hot. Don’t try this at home, and actually go and scold the guy who does this because he handles the liquid nitrogen without gloves and my high school chemistry teacher would be very mad about that.
You can read a more detailed article on the whole thing at Bethesda’s website. Also, if you could actually run a game at 1,000 fps, would you be able to tell the difference?
Jeri Ellsworth and her Commodore Bass
Jerri was walking around with something new made just for MakerFaire. She built this as an homage to the Commodore 64, her first computer. Staying true to its core, all of the processing is done by the original computer and sound chip, even detecting the string frequencies.