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by nereye 4mo ago
And ST (with similar considerations for node size etc.).
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by nereye 4mo ago
VBA is just there for backward compatibility. The modern alternative is to use JavaScript/TypeScript, which makes such solutions cross platform (including MacOs, web etc.): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office&
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by nereye 5mo ago
FWIW, this project is entirely digital (audio in: USB, audio out: S/PDIF or I2S). There are other projects for the Pico which implement S/PDIF in. In either case, since it is digital, the quality (or lack of) of the internal ADCs
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by nereye 5mo ago
A lower cost option is to buy a set of sticker overlays (e.g. similar to the ones you can buy to make it easier to type Korean or Japanese, etc. on a US (or generally, non-native) keyboard). For example (no affiliation): https://
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by nereye 7mo ago
Over 30 years ago, was working on a presentation software that shipped with a bunch of (vector) clip art and remember using the (raster) graphics from the CIA World Factbook as a base to create vector (WMF) versions of the flags of various
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by nereye 8mo ago
For folks who are in the area (or might be visiting), the recently opened Interim Computer Museum has quite a collection of vintage systems: https://icm.museum/?faq
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by nereye 8mo ago
Which Seattle library (am assuming you're referring to SPL/Seattle Public Library system) has a maker space? There is no maker space listed at https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/a-z-programs-and-s... .
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by nereye 8mo ago
couple more: Off House (household goods) Garage Off (car stuff) Also: mode off (fashion). See https://www.hardoff.co.jp/shop/brand/offhouse/
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by nereye 9mo ago
Also, in some countries (e.g. Germany) applications explicitly do not track that information (such as how long a documented was edited) for legal reasons related to privacy laws.
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by nereye 1y ago
[1] “ The Glazer family’s acquisition of Manchester United remains controversial to this day. Their £790m takeover in the summer of 2005 came by way of a leveraged buyout: when a significant amount of borrowed money is used to fund the acqu
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by nereye 1y ago
The Pi 5 does support OTG mode, e.g. see: https://www.foxipex.com/2024/10/26/virtual-keyboard-over-usb...
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by nereye 1y ago
About PowerToys’ Text Extractor, there’s equivalent functionality in Windows now, from [1]: It's recommended to use the Snipping Tool instead of the Text Extractor for capturing screenshots. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com&#
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by nereye 1y ago
FWIW, USA buys uranium from Russia, e.g. see: https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2025-06-18/rus...
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by nereye 1y ago
Adding to the list, DeviceScript, which affords running TypeScript on embedded devices: https://microsoft.github.io/devicescript/intro
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by nereye 1y ago
If you’re in the mood for an almost unbearably moving one, would recommend Nobody Knows .
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by nereye 1y ago
The memory in the Cray was external and there are RP2350 boards with 16MB of QSPI flash, here’s one of them: https://www.olimex.com/Products/RaspberryPi/PICO/PICO2-XXL/o...
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by nereye 1y ago
Early 80s (1982), according to Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth
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by nereye 1y ago
Applied Science YT channel has an interesting video showing this at work: Dramatically improve microscope resolution with an LED array and Fourier Ptychography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJLWwbs_cQ
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by nereye 2y ago
See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overvie... . Note: this is in the context of 'programmatically extending Office/M365', I don't think the OP was referring to CO
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by nereye 2y ago
Am partial to the following vintage video on transmission lines from Tektronix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9m2w4DgeVk
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by nereye 2y ago
With exceptions, was reading recently an interesting die analysis/estimate of the costs and margins of manufacturing of the AD9361 chip (a 65nm, digital radio transceiver, introduced 12 years ago and still selling at retail today for $
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by nereye 2y ago
From https://octopart.com/search?q=CYW43439&currency=USD&specs=0 . Indeed the lowest price $2.551 from Arrow has a MOQ of 5000 but Newark does have it for a promotional price of $2.73 for quantities as low as 1. It’s
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by nereye 2y ago
The WiFi (& Bluetooth) IC used in the Pi Pico W retails for ~$2.5, and presumably a bit less in volume (considering the Pico W is only $2 more than the base Pi Pico.
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by nereye 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_driver-assistance_s...
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by nereye 2y ago
The barcode scanning in the Libib app (an app to keep track of books) seems quite fast, it is quite addictive to just zap the barcodes and see the book data added to the catalog. It seems comparable to the laser based scanners used at libra
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by nereye 2y ago
This would likely have been the Mintronics POV kit (MAKE had a whole series of kits that shipped in an Altoids/mints tin, e.g. the Mintronics survival pack [1], which had a mini breadboard and 60+ components), here is a picture: https
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by nereye 2y ago
The ULX4M boards are not available yet but seem to support both PCIe as well as digital video: https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/intergalaktik/ulx4m/ Done by the same team who did the ULX3S.
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by nereye 2y ago
And another one: https://tait-radio.com/comjot-cj-1/
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by nereye 2y ago
> I forget if you need to be a Seattle resident to get a card Any resident of King County* can get an SPL (Seattle Public Library) card, due to a reciprocal agreement between SPL and KCLS (King County Library System). * with an exception
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by nereye 2y ago
One example (PIO implemented in Verilog for use in FPGAs): https://github.com/lawrie/fpga_pio

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