There’s one problem every maker has when the holidays arrive: How do we add LEDs to our decorations? The Plasma 2040, Pimoroni’s latest attempt at the best RP2040 board, aims to solve that problem with solid hardware that takes all of the guess work out of addressable LEDs. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Future)…
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Whether you’re building a custom keyboard or just looking to spice up an old favorite, changing keycaps is often the first stop on the way to personalizing your keyboard. It’s also one of the easiest upgrades a fledgling modder can make, requiring only a keycap puller to get started. But if it’s your first time…
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“An OLED desktop computer monitor.” Those words are often used to describe what might be, what could be. In a monitor review, they are usually part of a sentence like, “Nothing short of an OLED desktop computer monitor will have more contrast than this LCD display.” When comparing panel technologies, nothing even comes close to…
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Earlier this year Intel formally confirmed that some of its 2023 CPUs would be made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. using an unspecified manufacturing technology. Fresh rumors from Taiwan indicate that Intel is prepping four products that will be made using TSMC’s N3 (3nm) node and the line-up looks rather curious (and perhaps unrealistic). Furthermore, production could start…
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Just as we were thinking there were no devices left to run Doom on, along comes another. This time, it’s a CaptionCall phone, a landline phone with a built-in voice-to-text system designed to help people with hearing loss. You can get one for free from the US government, so naturally there’s a thriving second-hand market…
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Don’t leave your next job fair without one of these clever ATtiny84A-based business cards created by Dylan Turner. Not only does it let the recipient know who Turner is and how to reach him, it also doubles as a working video game console. Electronics based business cards are nothing new and we don’t expect anyone…
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Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Image 2 of 2 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Mercury Research CPU market share results are in for the second quarter of 2021, showing that AMD has lost share in desktop PCs as it prioritized the production of higher-margin SKUs and server and notebook chips, thus boosting…
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While the overall price and availability of graphics cards may be slowly improving, it’s still next to impossible to buy a modern GPU on its own at anything close to MSRP. That means pre-built desktops like NZXT’s Streaming Plus ($1,999 as tested) are still a popular choice for PC gamers, so plenty of people are…
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After Sony enabled the SSD upgrade in the PlayStation 5, it was a matter of time before makers of actual drives announced SSDs optimized for the console. This week TeamGroup Japan unveiled its T-Force Cardea A440 Pro Special Series SSDs that are tailored specifically for PS5. In fact, these drives are the highest-performing SSDs that TeamGroup has introduced so…
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Fritzchens Fritz, a person known for taking some impressive silicon die shots, has today published his latest creation: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G APU die shots. In the latest photos, Cezanne smiles for the camera and gives us some interesting discoveries. AMD Ryzen 5 5600G APU is AMD’s latest chip based on Zen 3 processor cores…
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