This is a note for Future John: I can get a MRB063A USB Cable Checker Case for my USB Data Cable Test Module for TypeB2.0/3.0 TypeC3.0/3.1/3.2 MicroB3.0/2.0 MiniB2.0 Data Cable Connection Status Function Tester.
The first attempt didn’t work out! Evidence follows:
Note to self: check out StarCraft: Mass Recall. Apparently it’s a remake of StarCraft in the StarCraft II engine. I’m not exactly sure where to get it or how it works, but I can probably figure that out.
My mate @drakonis referred me to the following:
Some articles about USB on Hackaday recently:
This is great: Ring on rope trick tutorial
I just watched this presentation from Rory Sutherland: Rory Sutherland: Want Fewer People to go to A&E? Change the Name | Health | WIRED.
At the end he provides this reading list:
I don’t have the time (or money) to read all of those books, the book I picked to read was Nudge.
What does your selection of time zones say about you?
Today I learned about Software Heritage. It’s a project to archive software source code.
In this video Cory argues that Google is making their search service worse in order to drive more traffic. Sigh. Cory Doctorow On Google & Monopolies!
I was searching for info about picoPower and I accidentally found STM32F1 Pico Pwner. Looks pretty interesting! It seems to be using power glitching to bypass locks so firmware can be dumped from certain microcontrollers.