Crucial MX300 525GB SSD Benchmark

     Lets test my Christmas present, Crucial MX300 525GB SSD I tested Crucial MX300 525GB SSD attached as secondary drive to my main PC. You can find desktop specification in the very end of the article. Interesting that this SSD comes with Acronis True Image
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Google Home Mini closer look

We are looking under the skin of Google Home mini…   I featured Google Home mini in my unboxing and review video on youtube: I was very excited to play more with the toy and I decided to disassemble it to understand better how it works and what is inside ! After a bit
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Samsung SSD 850 EVO 3D V-NAND 500GB on SATA3 Benchmark

Samsung SSD 850 EVO don’t think I can get any faster on SATA3 Today I received my long wanted Samsung EVO 850 3D V-NAND and decided to perform few benchmarks using one of my modern PC on SATA3 bus. Technical Specification: Samsung SSD 850 EVO Product Images Benchmarks
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BBC micro:bit review and specs

bbc micro:bit – size of a credit card, actually even smaller BBC has long history of developing cool things for computer education ! Back at the time, 35 years ago, they developed BBC Micro a small personal microcomputer for education ! And now they have it successor called
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Broadcom WICED Sense – Bluetooth Smart Sensor Tag

Yet another Sensor Tag – Bluetooth Smart Sensor Tag! Here is another Sensor packed Bluetooth Smart Sensor Tag evaluation/development kit from Broadcom ! Sensor Tag Technical Specifications: Includes multiple low-power MEMS sensors ( gyroscope – L3GD20 , Documentation
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Silicon Labs Sensor Puck

When puck is much smarter then you may think… Sensor Puck ! Lets look at development module featuring environmental and biometric sensors with Bluetooth 4 LE from Silicon Labs. Silicon Labs released their Development module to feature biometric sensor SI1147, it
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Fluke DMM 8600A repair photos

Old school still looks good ! Set of High Resolution photos of Fluke 8600A, this was taken during tear down and repair. Fluke was successfully repaired, main problem was detached input, broken tab and contacts clean-up on ganged switches.   This is how I repaired broken case
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Particle Photon

Photon – a particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass. Particle Photon is new dev kit from Particle, I just got it recently and want to compare it with
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Water cooling 3W Blue Laser

Lets make sure out blue laser doesn’t burn itself This is build log for the water cooling module for 3W 445 nm Blue Laser ( NDB 7875  ), to allow laser run at 2.4A for extended amount of time. Practically you can use any kind of laser diode in the standard AIXIS styl
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Temperature Logger with Particle Photon

Lets make something useful with Particle Photon I think temperature logger is a project that can find many application around house. For exaple I want to have temperature logger which will provide temperature measurements in my garage 🙂 Also I will be using it to control
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