Building robots is an awesome way to learn electronics and programming. We have the excitement of making something move, along with learning life-long coding skills that will help us create many different projects. Robots are made using two disciplines. The first is the engineering of building a chassis and connecting electronic components together. The second…
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VideoCardz has shared alleged images of Nvidia’s approaching GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card. The new Ampere offering looks like a carbon copy of the already released GeForce RTX 3080. Nvidia didn’t go much with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition. It appears that the chipmaker literally only added the “Ti” moniker…
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Sabrent has prepared a new line of SSDs that’s designed for hardcore Chia coin (XCH) plotting. The details are still pretty slim, but the Plotripper SSDs should make any Chia farmer very happy. Plotting Chia can kill even the best SSDs in a matter of weeks, depending on how serious you take your Chia farming…
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As some of the best graphics cards makers get ready to roll out their GeForce RTX Lite Hash Rate (LHR) add-in-boards (AIB), designed to limit the mining capability of the cards, enthusiasts are eager to push them to their limits and see how much cryptomining performance is really hindered. This week, a Zotac GeForce RTX…
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Amazon Prime Day is reportedly set to happen on June 21st and 22nd 2021. Whether you’re shopping for instant pots or Amazon Echo speakers, you’ll find significant discounts on mainstream consumer gadgets on those two days and in the period right before and possibly right after. But what about PC hardware? Fortunately, there’s plenty to…
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If you think Intel was done with Tiger Lake, then you have another thing coming. The chipmaker has unceremoniously posted four new Tiger Lake chips (via momomo_us) in its ARK database. Apparently, the processors are bound for a second-quarter launch. Given that these chips are listed on Intel’s ARK pages, you could argue that they’re…
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Graphics cards might be hard to get ahold of (at least without parting with a small fortune) but you can still build a gaming PC with the help of our favorite SBC, the Raspberry Pi. Jay from Print ‘N Play has done just that with his latest creation: a mini RGB gaming desktop. This project…
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A seven-year-old flaw in DRAM chips is making another comeback. Google revealed this week that it’s discovered a new technique, Half-Double, that can be used to exploit the Rowhammer bug thought to have been fixed with the release of DDR4. Rowhammer was discovered in 2014 when researchers showed that it was possible to manipulate data…
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The world grows stranger every day. Case in point: The BBC today reported that West Midlands Police discovered a cryptocurrency mining operation comprised of “about 100 computer units” while they were searching a suspected cannabis farm. Mining cryptocurrency isn’t all that different from growing cannabis. Both can lead to surprising amounts of profit, both rely…
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There are now a slew of RP2040 powered boards on the market. From the smallest, Adafruit’s QT Py RP2040 and Pimoroni’s Tiny 2040, to the largest, Adafruit’s Feather RP2040 and our Editor’s Choice Cytron Maker Pi Pico. The Raspberry Pi Pico itself is a $4 microcontroller, that offers lots of GPIO pins and a programmable…
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