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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29
Dennard scaling – Wikipedia
Since around 2005–2007 Dennard scaling appears to have broken down. As of 2016, transistor counts in integrated circuits are still growing, but the resulting improvements in performance are more gradual than the speed-ups resulting from significant frequency increases.[1][10] The primary reason cited for the breakdown is that at small sizes, current leakage poses greater challenges and also causes the chip to heat up, which creates a threat of thermal runaway and therefore further increases energy costs.[1][10] Since 2005, the clock frequency has stagnated at 4 GHz, and the power consumption per CPU at 100 W TDP.
Via [Wayback/Archive] What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002? – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/24
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The leak was short enough for Google to index the imagery and this text:
WHY2025 nam het zekere voor het onzekere door een ESP32-controller, een lora-chip en een kraakhelder scherm in zijn badge te verwerken. Tweakers …
Edit 20250727: two days later the page got reinstated without in their “Gathering of Tweakers” portion of the site a clarification why it was taken off-line for two days. It is still at the same URL, so I re-archived it: [Wayback/ArchiveBad] Dit is de WHY2025-badge met twee ESP32’s en een loramodule (need to re-archive in Archive.is as their IP got blocked)
The page now is a nice 404: [Wayback/Archive] Dit is de WHY2025-badge met twee ESP32’s en een loramodule
Not sure why the page got retracted, as the specs got released on LinkedIn a month ago at [Wayback/Archive] 🚀 Officially public launched: the WHY2025 Badge! | Jelmer Lopes Terto:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10
I wonder how this evolved, as the links are from fall 2022:
More links and info below, but first the image from the above Tweet:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/22
[Wayback/Archive] Electronic Basics by GreatScott! – YouTube
At the time of writing these were some 60 videos each 5-15 minutes long in reversed order (#1 at the bottom, #61 at the top).
This means it is about 10 hours of watching time well worth it.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/23
[Wayback/Archive] How TINY Can I go? The BEST Power Board is here! – YouTube – GreatScott!
I will try to remake an AliExpress PCB. It is a very handy voltage converter that can take a varying battery voltage and convert it into 3.3V or 5V while only requiring very little current (25uA) on the input. Sounds awesome, but the board is way too huge. That is why I try to push the size limits in this video to the minimum.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Making a Tiny PCB Design #electronics #diy #greatscott #science #engineering #pcb #tiny – YouTube
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/16
From a few years back when Lightning debugging cables were either expensive, hard or not to get at all: [Wayback/Archive] DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube.
Basically it is a Raspberry Pi Zero with adapted firmware connected to half a lightning extension cable.
A textual description (I wish it was linked from the above video) is at [Wayback/Archive] stacksmashing – The hitchhacker’s guide to iPhone Lightning & JTAG hacking – DEF CON Forums, which in turn refers to:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/08
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When at look at a local Amazon site, they have plenty of stuff: [
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 