How to make a CI-V cable to control the Icom IC-R20 receiver
Hello, tekkix! This is Anton Komarov, the author of the MTS Digital special projects team. My interest in radio woke up a long time ago, ever since a friend showed me…
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Why and how neural networks are taught to be humane
We used to expect that machines would replace us in simple mechanical work, but areas such as art would always remain with humans. Now this statement can already be disputed.…
Laptop with two screens or two screens for a laptop — which one would you choose?
tekkix, hello! This is Anton Komarov, author of the special projects team at MTS Digital. Today we will talk about GPD Duo: what kind of laptop is it and is it worth…
Resistor — it's simple. Not very
This note will be dedicated to such a simple thing as a variable wire resistor. But not so simple, from this family. At the moment when I thought that I already knew…
Interactive BASIC for Arduino and STM32
This project was developed for classes with schoolchildren - so that in the lesson you could program controllers, including via Bluetooth from a phone - with an interactive…
Warm Lamp Multivibrator
Interest in tube technology arises either from audiophilia, or when trying to restore a grandfather's receiver - or simply out of curiosity about retro electronics.
Echo Digest: Linus Torvalds' timeless advice
Sam Altman released a note on the future of AI; Mikron developed the first domestic UHF chip for RFID tags with a reading range of up to 14 meters; The ten most promising…
Raspberry Pi for $5.43 — is it real? What can it do and why is it so cheap?
Perhaps you have already heard that Raspberry Pi announced the release of Pico 2, a second-generation microcontroller board based on the RP2350. With a higher core clock…
Qucs-S: Guide to Simulation Types, Part 2
Qucs-S is an open-source program for electronic circuit simulation. Qucs-S is cross-platform and written in C++ using the Qt library set. My previous articles discuss…
Echo Digest: advantages and disadvantages of o1-mini compared to Sonnet 3.5
Prompt for the "God of Automation"; Russian company "Module" presented a high-performance computing module NM Quad; Demonstration of the process of hacking and gaining…
5 non-standard pocket DIY computers and more: strange gadgets around us
Hello, tekkix! This is Viktor Sergeev from MTS Digital. Among the huge number of various models of user devices, sometimes very unusual ones come across. Some of them…
Echo Digest: from Russian laptops to remote surgery
Overview of the latest achievements in technology: Russian laptops on Elbrus, breakthroughs in telemedicine, innovations in ADHD treatment, and AI development in various…
Presented wearable device NotePin with ChatGPT support
The company Plaud introduced the smart voice recorder NotePin with ChatGPT support, which will allow you to create notes. The device can record audio and convert it to…
