TIL – 3rd party m.2 heat sinks are a thing

I guess it shouldn’t be that surprising that 3rd party m.2 heat sinks exist. Device designers have been using heat absorbers in cases like the NUC chassis for ages. It’s just never occurred to me that in a less constrained thermal environment that there would be any use for one, and if it were the m.2 would come with one… […]

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Amazon Fire TV + Toshiba + BestBuy

I wasn’t impressed the last time I had a chance to play with Amazon’s Fire TV. Some of that was probably the hardware itself, but some of it was also the Amazon first nature of the UI. That said, I haven’t had a chance to play with it lately, and who knows – maybe it’s AWESOME now. Even if it […]

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LoRaWAN water level sensor

I’ve been thinking about doing something similar to this water level monitoring sensor, but with temperature, at a location that’s just a little too far for Wi-Fi. There are some good ideas here. For e.g. I didn’t know that the TPL5110 timer existed. The components are all on Arduino shields to reduce as much cables as possible. There is a […]

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For Sale/Want Forum?

I’ve been thinking about whether it would be a good idea to have a forum where we could post the things we have for sale or want to buy from the community. It would be great if you could take a moment and respond to the poll. Thanks  

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