April 2023

Gamers and PC enthusiasts alike are itching for more details about the latest Nvidia RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards release. We’ve come across a bit of news to scratch that itch thanks to some rumors published by videocardz.com, who claim to have received a release calendar from board partners. According to the leak, the new RTX 4060 Ti will be shipped to partners as soon as May 5th in anticipation of a “late May” launch date. No official launch date has been set for either card and even rumors are slim for the RTX 4060 launch.We recently…

Right now at Amazon, users can find the Silicon Power P34A60 2TB SSD (opens in new tab) for its lowest price yet. This SSD has been going for around $95 lately but today it’s discounted to just $75. This puts the final price at around four cents per GB. The drive has a rated read speed of 2,200 MBps and a write speed of 1,600 MBps. For a budget, DRAMless PCIe 3.0 SSD, this is a great value.This offer is for the 2TB version but other capacities are available, as well, including 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1TB…

Finding the right housing for your Raspberry Pi is crucial—sometimes it needs to be cooling efficient; other times it needs to look like an angry watermelon! This Raspberry Pi project was created by Kenneth Loebenberg, also known as Psdwizzard over at Reddit, who designed this Retro Pie setup to look like a watermelon. We’ve seen watermelon Pi projects before, but this is the first one we’ve seen that won’t spoil or get your hands sticky with melon juice.Loebenberg explained in the original thread that his brother is a STEM teacher. He wanted a retro gaming system for his students to…

They may be a little late, but the first crop of PCIe 5.0 SSDs have finally arrived at retail. The Inland TD510 is one of the first available and affordable models, and its leading-edge performance of 10GB/s of sequential read throughput and 1.5 million random read IOPS is a good indicator of what we can expect from the new wave of drives.The Inland TD510 offers unprecedented bandwidth with a compatible system, and performance as a whole is quite good. The heatsink is sufficient but comes with a largely ineffective fan, and this basic reference design matches Inland’s no-frills approach to…

Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if you want to use GPT4, the latest language model, you have to either pay for ChatGPT Plus, pay for access to OpenAI’s API, or find another site that has incorporated GPT4 into its own free chatbot. There are sites that use OpenAI such as Forefront (opens in new tab) and You.com (opens in new tab), but what if you want to make your own bot and don’t want to pay for the API?A GitHub project called GPT4free (opens in new tab) allows you to get free access to the GPT4 and GPT3.5…

What’s better than a fast graphics card? One that’s fast and power efficient at the same time. Even if you own one of the best graphics cards, you might not always need its full firepower. An independent developer, simonmacer, has created the Nvidia Power Management (opens in new tab) (NVPMM) software, a third-party utility for advanced users to manage their GeForce graphics card’s power. It’s not an official tool from Nvidia, so users should proceed cautiously.The NVPMM taps into Nvidia’s System Management Interface  (SMI), a command line tool that allows users to manage and monitor GeForce, Quadro, Tesla, and GRID…

The idea of silicon transistor and processors is so . . . 2022. Researchers in Sweden have designed and tested the first wooden transistors. Teams at Linköping University in Norrköping, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, have published a paper titled Electrical current modulation in wood electrochemical transistors, which discusses the creation, capabilities, and potential of the wood electrochemical transistor (WECT) they have recently developed. This WECT could pave the way for wood-based electronics that are more sustainable and biodegradable. Moreover, wood electronics could deliver the electronic control of living plants.Not Nanometers, But CentimetersRegular readers will be very familiar…

When it comes to the Raspberry Pi, building your Pi project starts with a game plan and designing your plan starts with knowing exactly which GPIO pin does what. That’s where tools like our GPIO pinout article or the those offered by Pinout.xyz come into play.Run by Pimoroni Developer Phil Howard, Pinout.xyz (opens in new tab) houses all sorts of useful GPIO charts and interactive tools for makers to reference while building their projects. Not only do they have every Raspberry Pi GPIO you can think of, but they also have quite a few pinout charts for Raspberry Pi accessories…