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

Intel is such an interesting subject in these markets 🤔

Intel is such an interesting subject in these markets 🤔
https://youtu.be/-Y9LWYmVQu0

Someone built a small VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft from scratch with no experience and shared how he designed and built it:
https://www.tsungxu.com/p/first-vtol-design-build-and-flight

Very cool.

Rate my new setup! No more over heating issues! 😜😎

Pretty cool talk from Bunnie om hardware trojans

The first 20 mins gives the most useful taxonomy I’ve come across with concrete examples

E.g. this very stealthy example he gives at min 14

Pretty cool talk from Bunnie om hardware trojans

The first 20 mins gives the most useful taxonomy I’ve come across with concrete examples

E.g. this very stealthy example he gives at min 14 



https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-iris-non-destructive-inspection-of-silicon

It’s funny how the internet works. I came upon this tweet when it was originally tweeted and every so often it somehow makes its way into a feed. It happened again today.

Why don't routers look like this https://t.co/HcxfoKm8FI

It’s funny how the internet works. I came upon this tweet when it was originally tweeted and every so often it somehow makes its way into a feed. It happened again today.

https://x.com/palettaanthony/status/1366542307143675905?s=46

We now have text-to-CAD. Has anyone played around with this?

We now have text-to-CAD. Has anyone played around with this?

https://zoo.dev/

Into the Bytecode

Here's my conversation with @quintus.

TEEs are going to change block building, model training and inference, even make scifi autonomous agents a reality.

We talk about the history, the architecture, and the roadmap for building TEEs with open-source hardware and supply chains.

Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/45-quintus-kilbourn

I’ve been looking at what it would take to build TEEs with much better security assumptions (and much greater success at being secure within those assumptions) 

This podcast gives a great overview of why one would even want to do this and how

Accompanying blogpost:

I’ve been looking at what it would take to build TEEs with much better security assumptions (and much greater success at being secure within those assumptions) 

This podcast gives a great overview of why one would even want to do this and how

Accompanying blogpost: https://writings.flashbots.net/ZTEE2-Supply-Chains

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/