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gaudat

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About gaudat

Pardon my shitposting.

Thriving in the gap between software and hardware.

A fucking flower.

Ever heard of the game Shenzhen I/O? That WAS my day job.

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    >home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for li…

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    It's very likely that PCB is made in KiCAD seeing the fonts. I really really hope they make the project files available. That would be a sick example project. Also, obligatory ꙮ

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    Comment #43606513

    I dig that PCB design. The panopticon (?) artwork and how the decoupling caps are lined up perfectly along the circumference.

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    Comment #43101011

    This post links to Quanta [ https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sorting-algorithm-al... ], which links to the actual paper [ https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00807 ]. Tbh I was expec…

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    Comment #42476442

    Imagine that thing painted neon green and hurling down the highway.

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    Comment #41710173

    For someone who has dabbled in electronics my first impression is "this is useless". Soldor wick is basically multi-stranded copper wires. You can already cut it with whatever snip…

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    Comment #41688925

    The design is pretty modern. But what is with the choice of the Kodak CCD sensor? CCD cameras got a resurgence in Chinese communities with second-hand camera prices increased like …

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    Comment #41597021

    A part of me really wants to push this and see how far it would go. Why stop at AM? Add in shortwave radio and let us listen to stations on the other side of the earth.

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    Comment #41591423

    Do you need latency measured in nanoseconds or multiplexing hundreds of sensors? Otherwise it makes a lot more sense to use a Cortex-M or Cortex-A.

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    Comment #41177281

    For your second example it's impossible to find a YouTube video of Chika dance that is available in every country. Try this: https://streamable.com/0hrdh It's remarkable how smooth…

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    Comment #41177132

    >And the beautiful thing about adaptive attacks is that they look exactly like Hollywood, it's beautiful! Because you see them flipping and going through values, getting it right a…

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    Comment #40885045

    Wenext. I used it from single quantities up to a couple hundred pieces. They assign a human in the loop to check your model that you can email to.

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    Comment #40879770

    Hard to believe it's only 50 years old because of how mechanical and simple the cube is compared to other gadgets of that time. I remember 15 years ago finding many variants of cub…

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    Comment #40771242

    Hate to say that but it works for me. I am using the largest regular* font size on an iPhone SE and there's no issue on the exact same page in the weather app. Perhaps OP is using …

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    Comment #40609515

    Another name hijacked by AI/ML... I was hoping to see some control thoery...

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    Comment #39812251

    Too bad there is a full moon potentially drowning out the aurora...

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    Comment #39652204

    And the line between the two is blurred now with MCU running at hundreds of MHz. The STM32H7 is has more IPC than the original Raspberry Pi.

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    Comment #39652183

    It all comes down to cost. These BGA chips have pins under the device unlike older packages like QFP or DIP. The pattern of missing pins is designed so it a fewer signal layers to …

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    Comment #39194699

    I miss this kind of stuff in computer programming languages. In hardware design, verification is done simultaneously with design, and semiconductor companies would be bankrupt if t…

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    Comment #39091182

    Wait until you see Brampton

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    Comment #39086143

    Anything from Hasselblad is sadly not usable for US govt projects because they are owned by DJI now

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    Comment #39085154

    Mildly interesting: I opened the titular image in a new tab hoping to find a higher resolution one, only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress, and the original image file is a w…