10+ hour, 59+ min ago  (31+ words) We do sometimes go on about how absurdly powerful microcontrollers are these days, but this time it's technically a microprocessor, not a microcontroller, at the heart of the build -- specifically, an. .....

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (37+ words) After Noctua recently released CAD files for a range of their computer fans, one of the first thoughts that popped up for most people was: Can you just to 3 D print their fans? Even though Noctua begs. .....

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (35+ words) If you've been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don't have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out [Hardware Haven]'s latest video on an unusually cheap GPU opti. .....

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (190+ words) Moore Threads MTT S80 Hackaday This is an interesting challenge from the "why not?" files " [GPUSpecs] over on You Tube built a gaming PC without using a single component from NVIDIA, Intel, or AMD. That immediately makes us think of the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (718+ words) Hackaday Recently [Jeff Geerling] has been tinkering with Fire Wire in order to use some older gear, which includes the use of a Raspberry Pi HAT called the Firehat This provides a 6-pin Fire Wire port courtesy of the VIA…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (683+ words) Vector quantization (VQ) is a new method that can compress the vectors calculated during inference to take up less space without significant loss of data. Google's recently published pre-print paper on Turbo Quant covers an LLM-oriented VQ algorithm that's claimed…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (376+ words) A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it's doing multiple things at once. In reality, it's just switching between tasks very quickly. But a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) compu. .. A computer does one…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (594+ words) {"0":"Open Graphics Card Powers Cyberpunk "Laptop'Hackaday For once, we can avoid debating in the comments what constitutes a "cyberdeck, because [LCLDIY] does not refer to his cyberpunk masterpiece as such " he calls it a laptop Considering the form factor is…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (480+ words) The 3 DFX Voodoo was not the first dedicated 3 D graphics chipset by any means, but it became the favourite for gamers among the early mass-market GPUs. It would be found on a 3 D-processing-only PCI car. .....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (207+ words) The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using B'zier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types of software, but due to its proprietary nature it didn't…...