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Threadripper Laptop

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you: The Most Powerful Laptop in the World

This Threadripper 16-core / 32-thread processor-based laptop started as a quest for mobile compute power without paying too severe a premium for mobile hardware. I searched for an ITX Threadripper-compatible motherboard, but came up empty-handed, except for a few forum posts that said a small form factor Threadripper was a terrible idea. Immediately I knew I could be the one to make that mistake and set out to put an untamed 180 watt TDP processor in a laptop.

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Circuitpython Raspberry Pi Pico USB HID Keyboard with Matrix Decoder

In this video, we walk through the Circuitpython + Raspberry Pi Pico USB HID keyboard code (matrix decoding, sending keypresses, etc.)

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The Smallest Keyboard

I received feedback on the Threadripper Laptop video that some would have liked to see a build video along the way. Well, here goes for the next project. The first component I'm nailing down is a very small keyboard, around the size of three pennies in a row.

There are BlackBerry keyboard-to-USB kits out there, though they require adapters and don't give you the full range of keys you might use with a PC.

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AI-Generated Music #WIN

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