PinePhone Unboxing: 200 Days Later
Months ago, this blog featured a Linux-friendly smartphone: Pine64’s PinePhone beta edition. At the time, it was using the default Linux distribution:...
The One Way ChatGPT Never Responded
Last week, I shared a few revealing questions that I think showed the true flexibility of the latest ChatGPT model. ChatGPT’s creators...
First Unboxing Tomorrow Newsletter
I’m pleased to announce I have launched the Unboxing newsletter for electronics and robotics enthusiasts! As this blog approaches its four-year anniversary,...
Manjaro Arm Lock Screen Fix
Manjaro Arm and KDE Plasma Mobile are Linux projects aimed at bringing security, configurability, and open-source software to mobile platforms. The notion...
PinePhone Unboxing: 100 Days Later
The Linux-powered PinePhone is an alternative to other smartphone brands that have cornered the market. The project, led by PINE64 focuses on...
Seven Revealing Replies from ChatGPT
A new chatbot named ChatGPT has caught the engineering community including myself off-guard. While artificial intelligence is a bit outside my specialization...
Metric System Anomalies In Engineering and Tech
The International System of units (SI) defined many ways to express measurements in print. Yet, hardware developers should be ready to encounter...
Arduino Modular Design Challenge
It's time to test out a modular text-to-speech board, and five Arduino models came to mind while looking for something to control...
Pine Phone Apps Intro
Recently, we unboxed the Linux-based Pine Phone beta edition. By default, this Linux-based and customizable smartphone shipped with the Manjaro-Arm Linux distribution...
Why People Avoid ppm
The job of expressing quantities between 0 and 1 usually falls to the percent (%) sign. And when it's used in this...