How Does an FPGA Work?(learn.sparkfun.com)

280 points by sph 3 years ago | 113 comments

How LEDs are made (2014)(learn.sparkfun.com)

125 points by smig0 5 months ago | 20 comments

DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016)(bigmessowires.com)

153 points by jimmaswell 2 years ago | 81 comments

The Serial TTL connector we deserve(kohlschuetter.github.io)

87 points by kohlschuetter 5 months ago | 61 comments

Pico W firmware creates driverless USB WiFi bridge (Layer-2)(cnx-software.com)

40 points by whiteblossom 3 months ago | 4 comments

Siemens PC-X (2015)(geekdot.com)

13 points by naves 2 months ago | 3 comments

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation(sparkfun.com)

489 points by yaleman 9 months ago | 491 comments

SparkFun's official statement announcing it will no longer do business with Adafruit Industries, citing Code of Conduct violations.

Things you can do with diodes(lcamtuf.substack.com)

367 points by zdw 11 months ago | 106 comments

A blog post on lcamtuf's Substack explaining the diode and the practical circuit applications of this often-overlooked electronic component.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise(danielmangum.com)

47 points by hasheddan 5 days ago | 28 comments

Blog post explaining why microcontroller-based IoT devices are likely unaffected by the eMudhra intermediate CA private key compromise, due to minimal pinned root CA bundles.

The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained(snarfed.org)

363 points by edent 3 years ago | 461 comments

Ryan Barrett's blog post arguing the Twitter API is effectively unmaintained, citing the decline of Twitter employee posts on the developer forum.