"what is this, just some random IBM blade?"
no, it's a QS20, which has dual Cell processors, yes those Cell processors
a real freak could set up a single BladeCenter system with blades containing Cell, Power7, Sparc T2, and Intel/AMD processors
haven't bought a weird computer in 8 months and I'm jonesing real bad over some sun netras
a zip tie wrapped around a corner such that the triangle shape is squished a bit to hold a steel weight wedged in place
spotted a cute trick to wedge a weight in place with a little cushioning
a quick post about my feelings (on AI and my personal projects) www.cy384.com/blog/an-ai-u...
updated some stuff on my site, including the limoncello speedrun and a quick post about my Power9 server www.cy384.com/blog/power9....
not going to make a stink about it, but seeing claude do a commit replacing the project name inspired a lot of feelings
frustrating canyon between "selling 50 arduino boards in blissful ignorance" and "have your electrical engineering team contact us with your compliance needs for a quote"
not really a big deal but
A) I want to know how because I have some hardware projects it would be neat to sell
B) selling an uncertified mains powered device with radio comms for normal consumers? I thought the FCC had SWAT teams for this kind of stuff
"the incredible journey of how I crowdfunded and manufactured my first HW product!"
oh neat, how did you handle FCC/CE/UL testing?
"*conspicuous silence*"
many such cases
linux has USB/IP to share usb devices over the network, will we see a generic open source PCIe over IP soon?
neat project for linux to emulate pcie devices in userspace github.com/cakehonolulu...
my dumb conspiracy theory is that only one company (synopsys) designs every single pcie thing that exists and they require the NDAs
I think about this comic regularly bsky.app/profile/wint...
an edit of the XKCD comic "Dependency", originally about how open source is critical but undersupported, now edited to show cloudflare as an octopus reaching into every layer
saw a bad edit of the xkcd comic about cloudflare and got mad about it, made my own
you invited the mitm octopus into your house!
there are very few models that seem likely to me, the 43P-150 is probably the most common one worth trying
drop in a suitable Mac PCI graphics card and maybe???
extremely (extremely!) tempted to buy one of the IBM CHRP machines just to try running these CDs
you could make a hardware virtual nvme over nvmeof device in a u.2 form factor if you wanted to
a surprising number of ARM chips like the RK3588 support PCIe endpoint mode
please excuse me for one curmudgeon vaguepost: if you don't hotplug it into a backplane that provides (at least) power and networking, it's not a blade, even if you make a custom enclosure a bunch of them fit in
Photo of two ethernet ports, top is labelled "BITS OUT", bottom is labelled "BITS IN"
BITS OUT / BITS IN
spotted on an OSA 5410
it's kinda weird how many "put a face on a robot for healthcare" companies there have been
hallway full of dull eyed, vacantly staring little yellow robots holding tablets
not particularly surprised this company shut down ("mabu 2" robots now on ebay for $55!)
marketing image of three "mighty mini" fans attached to copper heatsinks; one is very slim, one is tiny, and one is absolutely miniscule
picture of a PCB with a tiny fan mounted that says "8x8x3mm" and a little chinese coin behind it
researching parts for a ridiculous project, thought I'd have to use the aluminum case as a heatsink and underclock, but sunon makes an 8mm fan, look at these things
it absolutely flutters, what a shame it never made it to full production
beautiful delta 3D printer with living hinges(!) of a machined aluminum/PP composite (sadly, failed kickstarter) www.kickstarter.com/projects/396...
it pains me big time to say this, but having one entire linux computer per display is probably the cheapest way to do a bunch of network attached image/video; an allwinner chip is like $5
but slurpee linux cluster... what a strange world
...which is useful if you need a single device tree and uboot build to handle lots of slightly incompatible hardware variants
there are some neat uboot commands not listed in the documentation, like all the things you can do with FDTs at runtime (splice in precompiled fragments, change values, delete nodes, create new nodes)
