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:...
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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,...
PinePhone with Manjaro Arm and Plasma Mobile

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...