Rick Lehrbaum

Rick founded in Jan. 2007. The site features news, reviews & how-to posts re. mobile, embedded & IoT devices and technologies.

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As LLMs Devour the Storage Market, Fujifilm Bets on Tape:

One of the interesting things about the slow-moving AI apocalypse we seem to be trapped in is watching the knock-on effects reverberate through communities and economies. We’ve seen how — and la… https://t.co/5neIBRUGe6

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ZOTAC ZBOX CI471 nano fanless mini PC features Intel Core 7 350, WiFi 7, and dual Thunderbolt 4:

ZOTAC has introduced the ZBOX CI471 nano, a fanless mini PC powered by an Intel Core 7 350 hexa-core Wildcat Lake processor with integrated Xe3 graphics an… https://t.co/PlcDyL1Jnk

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1.3 million Google-certified Android TV boxes found to have malware:

You might assume that a Google-certified Android TV box will both work better and guarantee no malware. However, you’d be wrong, at least for the latter.

Google has just published a … https://t.co/Odxc2iaFhf

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Cat Feeder Ensures Fed Cats:

Automatic cat feeders are a dime a dozen, largely because this is an easy problem to solve. Dry cat food is easy for machines to manipulate, and the electronics needed to accomplish the task to a bare minimum are plentiful … https://t.co/bkF3PLLLky

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Etching Press Aims To Impress:

There’s an old joke about inviting a girl up to your dorm room to ‘look at your etchings’– but if you’re going to do that, you’d best have some etchings, lest she call your bluff. Even better would be to have prints avail… https://t.co/ZjwqDcP3De

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Three Open Hardware Projects to Explore in KiCad:

The best part of finding an open hardware project is being able to look beyond the photos. A schematic lets you follow the circuit, while a board file shows how the designer has made room for it.

This … https://t.co/iaJe15ZieR

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Toddler Phone Calls Family and No One Else:

The great thing about the modern world is how connected we are. It’s also the worst thing about the modern world, to be honest. [Allan Binder] wanted to give his toddler the very best of that, and escape the … https://t.co/hZf4r7kfnH

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Detecting an Eight Magnetic Pole State using Chiral Phonons:

The idea that magnetism doesn’t necessarily always have a dipolar configuration is not a new one, but it’s not an easy theory to find evidence for. Most recently a team of scientists at the U… https://t.co/SEQyLwVzl4

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2026 Hackaday Supercon: Bruce Potter’s Keynote Explores the Hacker Mind:

What is hacking? Many, especially in the mainstream, view it through the lens of computer security. Others consider it synonymous with making or creating. Even for those of us imm… https://t.co/dKZRymEbEC

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ToothPaste Goes Where Your Password Manager Doesn’t:

One of the easiest ways of improving security and privacy when using the Internet, and computers in general, is to use strong passwords unique to each site or service. A password manager makes this e… https://t.co/UUpvigMjt0

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Nordic Semi nRF71 wireless chips to deliver 20 times lower standby power for battery-operated WiFi devices:

Nordic Semi has just announced the nRF71 Series of ultra-low-power SoCs with ultra-low-power Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), and Thread conn… https://t.co/dd7XoaEQRV

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The Depiction Of Amateur Radio In The Movies And TV:

A constant in film and TV if you work with technology is to continually see wildly inappropriate depictions of it on screen. Whether it’s all those hacking scenes in which the teen wizard mashes a ke… https://t.co/9wwveZ3WTz

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The Complete AI Research Workflow: From Prompt Discovery to Content Creation https://t.co/1A4WfzobvL

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Seeed Studio launches 4.26” Mono and 7.3” Color e-Paper kits preloaded with OpenDisplay firmware:

Seeed Studio has launched two Nordic nRF52840-based Bluetooth LE e-paper kits preloaded with the OpenDisplay open-source firmware for e-paper displays and… https://t.co/EpvmKbS2XM

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The Components for Life May Not Have Arrived By Comet:

When it comes to abiogenesis, i.e. the formation of the first biological cells on Earth, there are many theories on how this got kickstarted. One of the more popular theories involves the primordia… https://t.co/J1jldg2g1P

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NEMESIS Gives You Control Over Your Hyundai Head Unit:

Whether it’s to make more money or because of licensing disagreements, car companies often restrict the abilities of the infotainment units in their vehicles. They can do so much more, and a group … https://t.co/xgnthuLiYT

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When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385:

Raspberry Pi has announced yet another price increase, this time for most models with 16GB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB now sells for $385, an $80 increase compared to the last pri… https://t.co/kOwDu0cpPH

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Flying an RC Airplane with Twin Airblower EDFs:

Shortly after [RCMakerLab] posted his question on potentially equipping an RC airplane with the electronic ducted fans (EDFs) from those airblower devices – are sold mostly as a replacement for canned air… https://t.co/v96Oy7JAJs

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Investigating whether Zener Diodes work for ESD Protection:

Sometimes the naming of parts in electronics can contribute to confusion about what they are good for, with the topic of Zener diodes in the context of fast surges like those from electrostati… https://t.co/b5DG2tjqsv

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Ask Hackaday: What Puts This Photo In The Pink?:

It’s an exciting time to be a camera hacker, because we are at a moment when even cheap camera hardware is starting to have high resolution sensors, and the awesome camera phones of a few years ago are n… https://t.co/Qj67H8jUUA