I recently purchased an AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus to help record screens on devices I test at my desk.

It's claim to fame is being able to record to a microSD card standalone (at resolutions up to 1080p60), without having a separate computer attached.

For my 4K cameras, I typically use an Atomos Ninja V , since it can record in full 4K resolution, but that thing is $700—the Live Gamer Portable is $

Update - October 17 : Today Qualcomm cancelled all remaining orders, and will no longer support the Dev Kit .

In late July, a week after ordering the Snapdragon Dev Kit , I wondered where it was . Arrow's website said 'Ships tomorrow' when I ordered , after all.

Many developers eager to test their code on Windows on Arm, on the premiere new 'CoPilot+' PCs that would revolutionize computing as we know it, were also wondering.

Well, wonder no more — 2

AI voice cloning is a tool. It can be used, and it can be abused.

Last week I was made aware that Elecrow, an electronics manufacturer and distributor, was using an unauthorized clone of my voice in some of their YouTube tutorials.

I couldn't prove it at the time, but there are AI identity detection services like Resemble.ai that can at least give some input into whether it was a direct clone or just something that sounds 'midwestern US

UPDATE 9/23 : The CEO of Elecrow responded . I've posted a follow-up blog post with my reaction to the response and some other thoughts on AI voice cloning.

Listen to this clip :

I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty familiar . I mean I would like you to subscribe to my YouTube channel. But that's the Jeff Geerling channel , not Elecrow , where the clip above is from. I never said

This is the Sipeed NanoKVM . You stick it on your computer, plug in HDMI, USB, and the power button, and you get full remote control over the network—even if your computer locks up.

How did Sipeed make it so small, and so cheap? The 'full' kit above is about $50, while the cheapest competitors running PiKVM are closer to $200 and up!

This blog post is a lightly-edited transcript of the following video on my YouTube channel

A few months ago, our AM radio hot dog experiment went mildly viral. That was a result of me asking my Dad 'what would happen if you ground a hot dog to one of your AM radio towers?' He didn't know, so one night on the way to my son's volleyball practice, we tested it. And it was awesome .

There's a video and some pictures in my hot dog radio blog post from back in March.

Raspberry Pi launched the 2 gig Pi 5 for $50 , and besides half the RAM and a lower price, it has a new stepping of the main BCM2712 chip.

This is the BCM2712 D0 stepping. Older Pi 5's shipped with a C1 . In their blog post , they said:

The new D0 stepping strips away all that unneeded functionality, leaving only the bits we need.

Steppings are basically chip revisions where they don't change functionality

I've been getting into 3D printing lately. I have an older Ender 3 V2 at home I bought during COVID. And in the past year I've acquired an Ender 3 S1, Bambu Labs P1S, and Prusa MK4.

I also dove head-first into 3D CAD , and designed a number of small SBC cases or parts to help with things around the house.

But I'd never built my own 3D printer from a kit—all the

At first glance, especially from the top, the Radxa X4 is your typical Arm SBC:

But you'll quickly notice the lack of an SoC—that's on the bottom. Looking more closely, what's a Raspberry Pi chip doing on top?! First, let's flip over the board to investigate. There's the SoC: definitely not Arm inside, this thing's an Intel N100: