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An electronics, metalworking, and 3D printing enthusiast has created someReference Circuit Bookswhere the ‘pages’ are PCBs. Published by Bolt Industries, there are presently two volumes available, with their content produced by the aforementioned expert enthusiast and Burqueño,Ian Dunn. The first book focuses on DC Circuit Fundamentals, while the other explores LEDs, transistors, and oscillators. The ‘books’ are available now and sell for $37 each. Bolt Industries boasts that these books “bring circuits to life!...

June 19, 2025 and in a watershed moment for Raspberry Pi, ithas listedon the London Stock Exchange (LSE) asRaspberry Pi Holdings PLC(Public Limited Company) and has the potential to raise $689.6 million (£541.6 million) at the commencement of conditional dealings. Shares started trading at 8am BST today, at an offer price of 280 pence ($3.57) per share. Looking at the LSE recent trades table we can see that the latest purchase of 266 shares was made at 10:49 BST at 354 pence per share ($4....

You don’t get to play with aRaspberry Pidaily at school. Still, students Yaqi Gao, Xiaoyu Liang, and Alina Wang from Cornell University are lucky enough to have used one in a big project. Together, these three students created what they callPi-Looper. This looper works like a professional device you’d buy on the market today using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico. According to the project documentation, all team members have a deep enthusiasm for music and want their project to reflect that....

Recently, Raspberry Pi LTD released the Raspberry Pi RP2350, a microcontroller intended for use with Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and third-party RP2350-based products [h/tHackaday]. Unfortunately, a hardware bug was quickly found with the pull-up resistors onboard, which have faulty voltage control. Basically, when GPIO pins go to 3.3 volts, they don’t go back to 0 volts afterward and are stuck at 2.1 volts. This is because of unintended latching behavior, which prevents the GPIO pins from being pulled to ground their charge....

The Web Design Museum is playing its part in the Christmas festivities by highlighting the 34th anniversary of the release date of the first-ever web browser and web page editor, an application called WorldWideWeb, and the museum has created a nifty web app emulator to celebrate the occasion. You cantry the emulator here. The WorldWideWeb browser is a truly seminal piece of computer software, to say the least. Developed by the inventor of the Internet, it was the first application to allow Internet access and made creating and editing hypertext (HTML) from within the application super accessible....

Retro gaming has taken off recently, and we’ve evencompared Raspberry Pis, PCs, and retro ministo see which one is better at it. However, nothing still beats playing on the original hardware, leading to a small niche market for retro consoles. So, if you want to play games from the early to mid-90s, you’ll want to check out the Pocket 386. This retro laptop comes from the same makers ofthe Hand 386 handheld retro PCand the Book 8088 compact retro notebook....

Resetting a router is an easy fix for various common router issues. The one downside is that, in some cases, you’ll have to reconfigure it afterward manually. Until you do so, you won’t be able to connect to the internet as your router was reset and doesn’t yet have the necessary credentials to connect to the Network Service Provider. In this article, we’ve detailed how you’re able to reconfigure your router and the steps you should take afterward....

The notorious16-pin (12VHPWR)power connector continues to be a persistent issue for some unlucky users. While user reports of16-pin meltdownshave diminished recently, they still occur. The most recent case involves an unluckyGeForce RTX 4090owner who shared his experience onRedditand presented a DIY solution to avert future incidents. Redditor malcanore18 recounted how the 16-pin power connector on his GeForce RTX 4090 had melted. To avoid it happening in the future, the user improved his 16-pin power cable by integrating six miniature fuses....

Third-party benchmark results (viamomomo_us) of the upcomingRyzen 7 9800X3D, in the form of PugetBench results in AdobePremiere ProandDavinci Resolve, have been published online. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D sees a multi-threaded improvement of 5% versus its predecessor in Davinci Resolve. These benchmark results give us a taste of what the Ryzen 7 9800X3D can do outside a gaming workload. The 3D V-Cache-equipped Zen 5 chip features an overall score of 14,201 points in PugetBench for Premiere Pro 1....

Reports aboutSamsung prepping a high-capacity SSD subscription storage servicemade quite a splash earlier this week. Samsung showcased its PBSSD as a Service solution at Nvidia-hosted GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2024) and we were able to check it out and learn more about the service. indeed we are talking about a solution potentially enabling petabytes of all-flash storage. But at the same time, this is not quite what we expected based on the report....

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) is an interface that lets you connect your storage devices (HDDs, SSDs, and optical drivers) to the motherboard. Basically, SATA is the replacement for PATA, which adopted parallel communication (carrying multiple bits of data). Moreover, they have become ade facto standard for both HDDs and SSDstoday. However, since its introduction, we have encountered several revisions, with the latest one being the SATA 3.5. Regarding the same, this article will guide you through the differences between these versions and whether or not to switch to the latest one....

Cyber Monday deals are the best way to get storage drives for cheap—be it internal or external drives. Hard Drives for Network-Attached Storage are no different. While theWDRed Pro is marketed as a NAS drive, it is also designed to offer top-tier performance in desktop PCs so that you can use this drive confidently on your PC. Newegg has an incredible deal on theSeagateIronwolf Pro 12TB. The deal gives you 44% off the original price of $359....

The flashiest M2 SSD might be the perfect answer to your custom build boot problems or expanding the storage of your PS5, but sometimes you just need a colossal amount of storage, as many terrabytes as you may possibly fit into a single 3.5-inch slot. Right now, at Newegg, you can score the legendarySeagate BarraCuda 24TB model for just $244, a cost of just $0.01 per GB. You can also opt for the smaller16TB model, which is also on sale for only $194....