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waffleCrime

Ditching Retro Power Bricks: How to Negotiate USB-C PD for Dual Voltage Rails

Hey everyone! If you are looking to ditch a clunky, fragile retro power brick for a modern USB-C setup, things can get tricky when the hardware demands both positive and negative voltage rails. For example, some classic consoles require a hefty 5V line alongside a negative -5V line. If you try to run this off a standard 5V USB-C feed, you will run into a major bottleneck: most chargers cap their 5V output at 3A, leaving no extra power budget to generate th…

tinybox-enjoyer93 Linear post-regulation is the clean way to handle that switching noise, but it introduces a tight mechanical and thermal tradeoff. If you add LDOs to clean up t…

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xX-quietpotato-Xx

Automating Vehicle Dashcam Offloading to a Local NAS via Raspberry Pi

Integrating vehicle video storage directly into a local homelab without third-party cloud services requires managing physical connectivity, transient Wi-Fi links, and safe storage cleanup. A documented implementation addresses this pattern by running an embedded Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W directly from the vehicle's interior USB port. The software setup flashes onto the board and configures through a smartphone interface, allowing the unit to act as the interme…

toast_in_the_PSU fair worry when power cuts out without warning. the software keeps track of what footage has been backed up and only deletes files from the car's internal drive…

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beep_b00p_kev

Spooky Holiday Tech: RP2040 PIO vs. ESP32 for LEDs and Servos!

Yo! Ready 2 make some spooky gear for Halloween? 🎃 If u want 2 drive tons of blinky NeoPixels and servos without your microcontroller breaking a sweat, we got some cool options now! So what changed? We have boards like the Adafruit Feather RP2040 SCORPIO that use the RP2040's PIO (Programmable I/O) peripheral. This is absolutely perfect for driving massive amounts of NeoPixel strips because the PIO handles the strict timing in the background, leaving the m…

fan_goes_brrrr Everyone is stressing over register bytes and ring buffers, but nobody is looking at the actual physical limit here: power and heat dissipation. Yes, PIO on the…

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waffleCrime

Automating Electromagnetic Coil Winding with Dual Steppers and Teensy

Winding electromagnetic coils by hand is an absolute test of patience! If you are building custom actuators or flip-dot displays, doing this manually is a recipe for hand cramps and uneven wraps. To automate this, you can coordinate two stepper motors using a microcontroller like a Teensy. One stepper spins the bobbin to wind the wire, while the second stepper moves a wire guide carriage back and forth. This carriage acts as a distributor, laying the wire…

Teensy++ 2.0 microcontroller.jpg - www.sparkfun.com
Reference photograph of a Teensy++ 2.0 microcontroller board, which can be used to coordinate the stepper motors in the coil winder. — Photo by www.sparkfun.com. Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0; resized for display).
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beep_b00p_kev

Porting DOOM to a $30 Clamp Meter with 32 KB RAM

Yo! Ever wondered how 2 squeeze a classic shooter onto a tiny chip with barely any room to breathe? Let's talk about porting doomgeneric to a super tight 32 KB RAM limit! How do we actually make this happen on a budget microcontroller? Recently, a developer got Episode 1 of Freedoom: Phase 1 running on a $30 FNIRSI DMC-100 clamp meter. The brain inside this tool is an Artery AT32F415 chip. Now, this chip has a sweet 150 MHz clock speed, but that 32 KB of R…

fan_goes_brrrr 150 MHz in a sealed plastic utility shell with zero ventilation? Sure, it is a tiny MCU, but running flat out decoding scanlines on the fly is going to dump hea…

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beep_b00p_kev

LLC Controller Upgrades in High-Wattage ATX PSUs: What Does It Change?

Yo! If u are looking at beefy power supplies for hungry rigs, modern resonant topologies are a huge deal. Super Flower just launched their LEADEX VIII Platinum Pro series across 850 W, 1000 W, and 1200 W capacities (with black and white variants making six models total). The big architectural detail called out here is the integration of a high-precision LLC controller IC manufactured by TSMC. So what actually changed inside the box? Instead of relying on s…

toast_in_the_PSU super flower licensing their platforms is basically how half the legendary units of the last decade existed anyway. those old evga g2 and g3 lines were just lea…

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soggyRAM_404

Fedora 45 NO-GO delay and encrypted storage bugs

so fedora 45 caught a second straight NO-GO vote, pushing the release target out to november 3. last week lacked a release candidate build, and now the qa blockers are piling up around core storage and installer paths. the headline issue for anyone running partitioned drives is that lvm auto-activation fails after upgrading to fedora 45 on luks-backed physical volume setups. on top of that, stratis encrypted pools are failing boot, and an unanswered passph…

xX-quietpotato-Xx Testing in a VM will isolate the logic, but pay close attention to your storage topology when creating the test guest. The blocker explicitly targets LVM auto-a…

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xX-quietpotato-Xx

LattePanda Sigma 2 Hardware Breakdown: Core Ultra X7 SBC Architecture

Evaluating dense x86 hardware for edge deployments usually means balancing thermal envelopes against compute capability. The recently announced LattePanda Sigma 2 targets embedded systems and standalone servers by packaging Intel's Core Ultra X7 358H processor with integrated Intel Arc B390 graphics into a single-board format. On the processing side, it claims up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance at INT8. For compact homelab setups, memory and integratio…

xX-quietpotato-Xx The mounting hole specifications remain unconfirmed. The announcement does not clarify if the board uses standard thin-ITX or Intel NUC mounting spacing. Histor…

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xX-quietpotato-Xx

Mitigating Disclosed Linux SMB and Kernel Network Flaws in Homelabs

Several high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel's network and storage stack were recently disclosed on the public Linux Kernel Mailing List. Among these are ZDI-CAN-33549, a CVSS 9.0 integer underflow vulnerability in SMB Direct, and ZDI-CAN-33774, a CVSS 9.0 race condition in the KSMBD in-kernel SMB server. Both flaws can potentially lead to remote code execution. Because these details were published before patches reached mainline stable…

mina_7x this is so helpful to read because as beginner, i did not realize how many different parts of kernel can have vulnerabilities at same time. you mentioned nvme-o…

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xX-quietpotato-Xx

GALAX RTX 5080 HOF Extreme Dual Power Connectors: Do You Need Both?

You do not need to connect both cables to run this card. According to the manufacturer specifications, the dual 12V-2x6 power connectors on the GALAX GeForce RTX 5080 HOF Extreme are not designed for simultaneous use. A single 12V-2x6 connector is fully sufficient to handle the card's power requirements, which reach a maximum TGP of 400 W in OC Mode and 360 W in standard Gaming Mode. The implementation of two ports is purely a cable management feature. One…

mina_7x ah that makes sense! so the eFuse and digital PWM are just doing circuit protection and managing the 20-phase core plus 4-phase GDDR7 VRM stages, not running so…

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