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Lifecycle: The Important Hardware Spec You May Be Ignoring

You’ve spent years conceptualizing and designing an innovative embedded project, device or system and are finally ready to start choosing the hardware that will power it. You’ve created…

Want a great lawn? Here’s how to do it yourself

With some know-how and time, anyone can save hundreds of dollars a year via DIY lawn care.

Hardware Hides Many Sins

A lesson I learned early in my career - you don't need to micro-optimize as long as you have fast enough hardware.

The $35 hardware in your home that could cost you $14,000

There's a hidden flood risk in your home and it has absolutely nothing to do with the rain, or your drains. But it could cost you tens of thousands of dollars if you don't sort it out.

Taking the “Hard” Out of Hardware

There’s this belief among my software developer friends that electronics are complicated, hardware is hard, and that you need a degree before you can design anything to do with electricity. They honestly believe that building electronics is more complicated than writing intricate software—that is, the software which powers thousands of people’s lives all around the world. It’s this mentality that confuses me. How can you write…

Getting to Know Your Lawn in 3 Simple Steps

The key to getting started is knowing your lawn in three simple steps.

Hardware store sells 'doohickies' and people can't get enough

What's Next in the Hardware Revolution

We’re now entering what we think of as “Phase 2” of the Hardware Revolution, where the bar is much higher for design, customer experience, quality, and overall usefulness of product.

Choosing Decorative Hardware Doesn’t Need to be Hard

While the body of the furniture itself catches the eye on its own, it’s most often the decorative hardware that makes a home's custom cabinetry “pop.”

How to Restore Brass Hardware

If you have an old door that featured metal ornamentation now missing, here's how to restore brass hardware and bring the door back to its former glory.

YouTube’s Hardware Restoration Videos Can Fix You, Too

Exploring the mysteriously soothing powers of manual labor YouTube

How To Manage End-Of-Life Scanning Hardware

Document scanning hardware has come a long way from a technology and reliability standpoint since the early days of document imaging. Many of today’s scanners are durable and productive enough to last several years. In fact, your scanning vendors might give up on certain scanning lines long before your organization is ready to. I’m sure most of you have received that dreaded email or letter from…

How Much of Glass’s $1,500 Price Tag Is Hardware?

A new product teardown of Google Glass estimates the gadget’s hardware and manufacturing costs total about $152, which would represent just about 10% of the digital headset’s $1,500 price tag.

7 Important Hardware Terminologies to Know Regarding Computing Technology

Today, we list some hardware terms that you may not be all that familiar with.

How to Choose the BEST Commercial Lawn Mowers

This guide was put together to help numerous industry experts and lawn professionals (like yourself) to choose THE BEST commercial lawn mower for your lawn care business. Many people who […]