Here’s a fun build from element14 presents: Build Your Own USB Looper for Serial Debugging and File Transfer — Episode 702. It lets you connect two USB hosts to each other.
Category Archives: Internet
DIY BluesBreaker
In this video Ruckus Audio makes a BluesBreaker for his guitar.
Solving Impossible Problems with Dan Gelbart
This interview with Dan Gelbart looks interesting, but I don’t have two hours spare to watch it! You can learn more about Dan Gelbart here: The optimistic inventor: Dan Gelbart, Weizmann-identified whiz kid, recalls a storied career. His popular YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/dgelbart.
A look inside the FGE2500 ECL Gate Array from Fairchild Semiconductor
In this short video we see inside a FGE2500 gate array from Fairchild Semiconductor. It has 2,840 gates using a 1.5 micron process and was made back in the 1980s.
Undeformable pen clip
I love what these guys are doing with clips and such.
How to WIN the Game of Earth
In this one Chase Hughes talks about this game we’re playing on Earth.
How A True Polymath Like Benjamin Franklin Learns
In the video we learn about Franklin’s learning principles:
- Reconstruct from memory
- The Socratic method
- Utility first learning
- Argument mapping
- Polymathematics
- Sociable learning
- Read constantly
- Follow your interests
And how to think like Benjamin Franklin:
- Follow your interest
- Think very deeply into it
- Strengthen all sides of an argument
- Experiment like an inventor
One ROM 40 – 16-Bit ROM Replacement for Amiga and Beyond
The latest One ROM installment from Piers Rocks. He made his own PIO/DMA emulator and One ROM logic analyzer, as one does.
Inside a 3000W Water-Cooled Power Supply with @ElectrArc240
I’m always impressed with how much @ElectrArc240 knows about power electronics.
Hackable Desk Robot
Here’s something fun: Your Next Desk Toy Should Be a Hackable Robot. This “DeskBuddy” is basically a ESP32-C3 Super Mini microcontroller with a 1.3-inch OLED display. I tried to order one, just for fun, but it seems they only ship to India.