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  • Amazon is a German company! Really? No, of course not, but looking at how hard it is to get their things to speak English, one might as well think so.

  • Ah, the 7805 voltage regulator. Easy to use and indestructable - right? But there are some gotchas. And in one project I managed to run into not just one, but two of them!

  • Here's a statement you'll hear quite often: "You can't run 16 Bit software on 64 Bit operating systems. It's a limitation of the CPU." Is it true? Well, partially ...

    At work we have quite a few Fujitsu Esprimo Q910/Q920/Q930 Mini-PCs. They offer quite a bit of power and easily fit on every desk. The ideal office machine ... except when they break :(

    We've been using the CSN-A2-T in a few projects, like the Thermobooth and the Polatherm. It seems to be a quite popular device because it's easy to work with and beacuse thermal paper is extremely cheap.

  • Back when I was a kid, I loved to play the old jump’n'run dos game “Tricky quiky games II”. It was made by Rauser Advertainment (now called K1010) for the Nestle corporation.