Electronics Design

Makers and open hardware for innovation

Just like the garage computer explosion of the 70’s through the 80’s, which brought us such things as Apple, pong, Bill Gate’s hair, and the proliferation of personal computers, the maker movement is the new garage hardware explosion. Today, 135 million adults in the United States alone are involved in the maker movement. Enthusiasts who

Free energy busted

Free energy technologies is interested many people and there are web sites on free energy devices. But do those technologies really work as claimed? Most probably not. Here are two videos showing the bullshit on many free energy ideas. Mythbusters Free Energy “Busted” This episode busts the following ideas: the ring oscillator (referred to as

Comparing old and new processors

Phoronix celebrated their 11th birthday by comparing modern CPUs to old Socket 478 CPUs with the NetBurst Celeron and Pentium 4C on an Intel 875P+ICH5R motherboard. These old NetBurst processors were compared to modern Core and Atom processors. The comparison results can be foudn at Comparing Today’s Modern CPUs To Intel’s Socket 478 Celeron &

Cable Tracers

Cable tracers are used for tracking and troubleshooting cables quickly. They are suitable for identification and maintenance of telephony networks and also for testing any kind of lines not-connected to the mains. Suitable applications are wiring test for computer Local Area Networks (LAN) and telephony extensions. There are countless cable tracers on the market, but