no agenda. 
meanwhile:

- talk about what hardware tinkering you have been upto
- share if you find anything interesting, fun
- ask for help if you are stuck on something
- be curious

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hardware

Recently listened to a keynote by yenchoi.twitter on how Africa has fallen far far behind the rest of the world in semiconductor tech. 

I really haven't heard anyone else talk about this, let alone propose a solution 👀

I'm keeping an eye on what they are doing at ChipLab.net

BattleBots

Welcome to the new BattleBots channel!

BattleBots is the premier robot combat organization in the US with a TV show on Discovery now in its 7th season, and live events in Las Vegas.

Here's the video of last year's championship match between Sawblaze and Minotaur

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lwBlS6twxjo

I would love to start a /battlebots tournament (or sth like it) at my local university 😃

As a hardware guy from a 3rd world country, I see Battle bots as a potential medium to ignite passion for hardware here, to begin inspiring a generation of makers & hardware devs that could change the country's story altogether

Meta is overlooking that they’re increasingly incentivized to impair people’s vision

this is super sad. AnandTech was a huge part of my early years. i would read all the reviews, performance metrics, and subscribe to new posts over an RSS feed when cool things were released.

i miss this kind of independent internet.

this is super sad. AnandTech was a huge part of my early years. i would read all the reviews, performance metrics, and subscribe to new posts over an RSS feed when cool things were released.

i miss this kind of independent internet.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell

Someone is asking abt investing in ETH L1 native hw… seems dead end; like the BTC kids had their mining rig moment then operators ran to AWS

https://plateia.online/huawei-already-has-a-new-chip-to-rival-nvidias-ai-gpus-ascend-910c-aims-to-replace-nvidias-blackwell-in-china/

Give some of your ideas about an open custom frame for micro-ATX motherboard.

https://warpcast.com/ichristwin.eth/0xa9bc9679

starlink is so cool i wish i had an excuse to buy one 😞

shipped cool stuff and watched quite a few impressive project demos with over 30 baller builders yesterday

keep at it hsrhackerhouse 🫡

https://x.com/devfolio/status/1807773444693737775

This was a lot of fun, we also played with lightsabers later!

😅 One of the earliest batches from the year 2022. Back then, nothing worked as designed and everything kept blowing up in our face (literally). 

Yet, the thought of one day having the ability for peers to provide each others energy infra kept us pushing the build 🧑‍💻

And of course, we can't stop now. We've come this far, we have to see it through 😌

I have always wondered why elecronic components have such weird values and now I have an answer.

I have always wondered why elecronic components have such weird values and now I have an answer. 

https://digilent.com/blog/why-do-electronic-components-have-such-odd-values/

I’m new to mechanical computing, but wow.

I’m new to mechanical computing, but wow.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado6476

defense tech having a rebrand as deep tech…. 

only a matter of time till crypto tries to nudge its way in 🙂‍↕️

Another week to go build the future 🧑‍💻