A Little Off Code, Computers, Photography and Guns

24Mar/100

New Overclockable Intel Chips for Gamers

Two of the more interesting Core chips in the pipe from Intel, at least for gamers: The 32nm Core i5-655K (dual core), coming in June, and the 45nm Core i7-875K (quad core), coming in July, both have unlocked multipliers, meaning it's way easier to overclock the crap out of 'em. They will be expensive.
-Matt Buchanan

Just thought this was a funny quote, specifically the emphasized bit at the end. I've always loved direct humor.

6May/090

I should have looked at the dimensions…

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Over the weekend I ordered a 20x4 character LCD for my arduino... I should have looked a little more closely in the datasheet at the section about it's dimensions. Needless to say it's a bit larger than I had originally pictured. So the LCD Shield I've been designing has been thrown off a little bit by the size of this beast.

Looking at the picture the LCD is on the left and my arduino + battery backpack is on the right. I wasn't really planning on it being that huge, but anyway it looks like I'm going to have to heavily modify the PCB layout I've already done for it.