from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsThe Oldest Living Torrent is 20 Years Old: Twenty years ago, in a world dominated by dial-up connections and a fledgling World Wide Web, a group of New Zealand friends embarked on a journey. Their mission? To bring …read more https://t.co/cijSh5YkPZ #hadtips https://t.co/uQYI4MIGGv
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsInvestigating The Fourth Passive Component: When first learning about and building electronic circuits, the first things all of us come across are passive components such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors. These have easily-understandable… https://t.co/FyCejGByAw #hadtips https://t.co/htVdWwGSp2
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsTesting Oxide Etchants for the Home Semiconductor Fab: Building circuits on a silicon chip is a bit like a game of Tetris — you have to lay down layer after layer of different materials while lining up holes …read more https://t.co/Vail1JS0ui #hadtips https://t.co/zs2DLHUrpk
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsString Art Build Uses CNC to Make Stringy Art: String art is as old as, well, string and something to hang it from. But, like most things, it gets more enjoyable when you involve a CNC. [Paul MH] went …read more https://t.co/c0lVo5Elpa #hadtips https://t.co/pXSK1jKB19
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsDo Bounties Hurt FOSS?: As with many things in life, motivation is everything. This also applies to the development of software, which is a field that has become immensely important over the past decades. …read more https://t.co/yjfm6wVwbS #hadtips https://t.co/PrtL9vC7F5
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsBeating Apple’s Secret Lid Angle Sensor Calibration With Custom Tool: Among the changes made by Apple to its laptops over the years, the transition from a Hall sensor-based sleep sensor to an angle sensor that determines when the lid is …read… https://t.co/nEZ8Yi2tDW #hadtips https://t.co/v8DkWKHWIU
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisors$13 Scope and Logic Analyzer Hits 18 Msps: We aren’t sure what’s coolest about [Richard Testardi’s] Flea-Scope. It costs about $13 plus the cost of making the PCB. It operates at 18 million samples per second. It also …read more https://t.co/Gws9FKF32Q #hadtips https://t.co/fyDcC7tt6V
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsHow to Chase the Beam With a Z80: The more accomplished 8-bit microcomputers of the late 1970s and early 1980s had a dedicated display chip, a CRT controller. This took care of all the jobs associated with driving …read more https://t.co/5PmfY5LT41 #hadtips https://t.co/1UDlrLNTCS
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsA Pulse Of Annoyance About Oscillators, Followed By A Flyback Of A Rant: Everyone likes to play with high voltages, right?. Even though the danger of death goes up with every volt, it’s likely that a few readers will have at some time …read more https://t.co/S6MCLo4pkF #hadtips https://t.co/jgnomwcxeE
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from http://twitter.com/360TechAdvisorsProcesses, Threads, and… Fibers?: You’ve probably heard of multithreaded programs where a single process can have multiple threads of execution. But here is yet another layer of creating multitasking programs known as a fiber. …read more https://t.co/DTnQklUpmL #hadtips https://t.co/NjzXA0CilL
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